1860 - 1938
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, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 232 out of 841. Before 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.
1732 - 1763
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 226
1799 - 1865
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 227
1946 - 2001
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 228
1748 - 1831
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 229
1946 - Present
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 230
1771 - 1853
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 231
1860 - 1938
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 232
1852 - 1915
HPI: 55.51
Rank: 233
1732 - 1791
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 234
1730 - 1795
HPI: 55.48
Rank: 235
1498 - 1554
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 236
1813 - 1895
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 237
1856 - 1953
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 238
Among people born in 1860, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 55. Before 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 78. Before 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.
1860 - 1919
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 49
1860 - 1926
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 50
1860 - 1880
HPI: 55.95
Rank: 51
1860 - 1918
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 52
1860 - 1919
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 53
1860 - 1908
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 54
1860 - 1938
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 55
1860 - 1927
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 56
1860 - 1942
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 57
1860 - 1931
HPI: 54.04
Rank: 58
1860 - 1936
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 59
1860 - 1941
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 60
1860 - 1940
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 61
1909 - 1938
HPI: 56.07
Rank: 72
1876 - 1938
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 73
1855 - 1938
HPI: 55.71
Rank: 74
1881 - 1938
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 75
1866 - 1938
HPI: 55.61
Rank: 76
1868 - 1938
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 77
1860 - 1938
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 78
1862 - 1938
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 79
1868 - 1938
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 80
1877 - 1938
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 81
1877 - 1938
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 82
1864 - 1938
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 83
1858 - 1938
HPI: 54.66
Rank: 84
Among people born in Denmark, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 205 out of 893. Before 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).
1649 - 1704
HPI: 55.74
Rank: 199
1928 - 2016
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 200
1912 - 1995
HPI: 55.67
Rank: 201
1879 - 1963
HPI: 55.66
Rank: 202
1726 - 1756
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 203
1898 - 1944
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 204
1860 - 1938
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 205
1785 - 1864
HPI: 55.45
Rank: 206
1745 - 1802
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 207
1913 - 2012
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 208
1966 - Present
HPI: 55.23
Rank: 209
1946 - Present
HPI: 55.02
Rank: 210
1956 - Present
HPI: 54.96
Rank: 211
Among biologists born in Denmark, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 5. Before 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).
1853 - 1938
HPI: 61.45
Rank: 1
1857 - 1927
HPI: 59.72
Rank: 2
1745 - 1808
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 3
1698 - 1764
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 4
1860 - 1938
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 5
1841 - 1924
HPI: 53.42
Rank: 6
1842 - 1909
HPI: 52.93
Rank: 7
1730 - 1784
HPI: 51.16
Rank: 8
1737 - 1827
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 9
1818 - 1898
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 10
1877 - 1933
HPI: 46.19
Rank: 11
1786 - 1854
HPI: 44.09
Rank: 12