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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 36,293 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Christen C. Raunkiær is the 232nd most popular biologist (up from 244th in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 195th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Danish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 232 out of 841Before him are Peter Forsskål, John Lindley, Francisco Varela, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Craig Venter, and Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim. After him are Friedrich Loeffler, Joseph Gaertner, Pieter Boddaert, Hieronymus Bock, James Dwight Dana, and Sergei Winogradsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 55Before him are Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia, Annie Oakley, Sunanda Kumariratana, Michel Zevaco, Friedrich Naumann, and Sidney Paget. After him are Lizzie Borden, Walter Sickert, William Bates, Charles Curtis, Simon Dubnow, and Albert Kahn. Among people deceased in 1938, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 78Before him are Bernd Rosemeyer, Nicola Romeo, Edwin Hall, King Oliver, Emile Vandervelde, and Otto von Lossow. After him are Cao Kun, Francis Jammes, Edmund Landau, Max Factor, Ante Trumbić, and William Henry Pickering.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 205 out of 893Before him are Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark (1649), Peter Naur (1928), Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark (1912), Jacob Gade (1879), Princess Louise of Denmark (1726), and Kaj Munk (1898). After him are Adam Wilhelm Moltke (1785), Jens Juel (1745), Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller (1913), Helle Thorning-Schmidt (1966), Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester (1946), and King Diamond (1956).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among biologists born in Denmark, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 5Before him are Hans Christian Gram (1853), Wilhelm Johannsen (1857), Johan Christian Fabricius (1745), and Erik Pontoppidan (1698). After him are Eugenius Warming (1841), Emil Christian Hansen (1842), Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737), Johan Lange (1818), Johannes Schmidt (1877), and Nathaniel Wallich (1786).