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Carl Sigismund Kunth

1788 - 1850

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Carl Sigismund Kunth (18 June 1788 – 22 March 1850) was a German botanist. He was also known as Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth. He was one of the early systematic botanists who focused on studying the plants of the Americas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Sigismund Kunth has received more than 50,868 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Sigismund Kunth is the 348th most popular biologist (down from 235th in 2019), the 2,758th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,938th in 2019) and the 66th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Sigismund Kunth ranks 348 out of 841Before him are Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Eugen Fischer, William Speirs Bruce, and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst. After him are Göran Wahlenberg, Antonio José Cavanilles, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Odoardo Beccari, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, and John Maynard Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1788, Carl Sigismund Kunth ranks 31Before him are Friedrich Rückert, Pierre Joseph Pelletier, FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, and Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes. After him are Mohammed bin Thani, Simon Sechter, Juraj Haulik, Rafael Urdaneta, Tomás de Zumalacárregui, and Athanasios Diakos. Among people deceased in 1850, Carl Sigismund Kunth ranks 36Before him are Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Margaret Fuller, Lorenzo Bartolini, Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, and Adalbert Gyrowetz. After him are Charles Rivière-Hérard, Václav Tomášek, Richard Mentor Johnson, Vicente López Portaña, Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela, and Garlieb Merkel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Sigismund Kunth ranks 2,758 out of 6,142Before him are Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1796), Artur Fischer (1919), Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1582), Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1519), Ernst Schröder (1841), and Frederick Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1653). After him are Karl Friedrich Burdach (1776), Ludwig Kübler (1889), Hermann Lang (1909), Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1901), Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg (1836), and Adolph Kolping (1813).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Sigismund Kunth ranks 66Before him are Karl Koch (1809), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665), Eugen Fischer (1874), and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743). After him are Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850), Conrad Moench (1744), Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744), Otto Kuntze (1843), Wilhelm Roux (1850), and Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809).