BIOLOGIST

Christen C. Raunkiær

1860 - 1938

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Christen Christensen Raunkiær (29 March 1860 – 11 March 1938) was a Danish botanist, who was a pioneer of plant ecology. He is mainly remembered for his scheme of plant strategies to survive an unfavourable season ("life forms") and his demonstration that the relative abundance of strategies in floras largely corresponded to the Earth's climatic zones. This scheme, the Raunkiær system, is still widely used today and may be seen as a precursor of modern plant strategy schemes, e.g. J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christen C. Raunkiær has received more than 39,017 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Christen C. Raunkiær is the 271st most popular biologist (down from 231st in 2019), the 206th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 204th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Danish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 271 out of 1,097. Before him are Erik Pontoppidan, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Eric F. Wieschaus, Francis Darwin, David Julius, and Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza. After him are Peter Forsskål, Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, Jérôme Lejeune, Jack W. Szostak, John Maynard Smith, and Guillaume-Antoine Olivier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 56. Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxis, Bruno Liljefors, Kolë Idromeno, Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz, Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia, and Walter Sickert. After him are Sunanda Kumariratana, Sidney Paget, Lizzie Borden, Annie Oakley, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Katō Takaaki. Among people deceased in 1938, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 82. Before him are Leopold Godowsky, Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, David Riazanov, Bernd Rosemeyer, Sholem Schwarzbard, and Nikolai Krylenko. After him are Max Factor, William Henry Pickering, Florence Lawrence, Gillis Grafström, George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, and Edwin Hall.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 206 out of 1,032. Before him are Hastein (810), Prince Axel of Denmark (1888), Poul Schlüter (1929), Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1546), Augusta of Denmark (1580), and Erik Pontoppidan (1698). After him are Jens Otto Krag (1914), Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark (1747), Marie Krøyer (1867), Søren Lerby (1958), Henning Larsen (1925), and Jacob Gade (1879).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among biologists born in Denmark, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 6. Before him are Hans Christian Gram (1853), Johan Christian Fabricius (1745), Wilhelm Johannsen (1857), Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737), and Erik Pontoppidan (1698). After him are Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Eugenius Warming (1841), Emil Christian Hansen (1842), Japetus Steenstrup (1813), Nathaniel Wallich (1786), and Johannes Schmidt (1877).

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