BIOLOGIST

Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck

1776 - 1858

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Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (14 February 1776 – 16 March 1858) was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species (almost as many as Linnaeus himself). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck has received more than 54,266 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck is the 402nd most popular biologist (up from 433rd in 2019), the 3,025th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,202nd in 2019) and the 78th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck ranks 402 out of 1,097. Before him are Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, Martha Chase, Gregory Winter, Jean Cabanis, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, and Karl Möbius. After him are Marie Stopes, Carl Borivoj Presl, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Emil Christian Hansen, Georg Eberhard Rumphius, and Karl Eichwald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1776, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck ranks 27. Before him are Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Lady Hester Stanhope, Vasily Golovnin, Friedrich Stromeyer, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, and Karl Friedrich Burdach. After him are Joseph Görres, Bernardino Drovetti, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Ignaz von Seyfried, Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg, and Hirata Atsutane. Among people deceased in 1858, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck ranks 34. Before him are Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Rachel Félix, Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden, Valentín Gómez Farías, Sigismund von Neukomm, and Johann Baptist Cramer. After him are Charles-Louis Havas, Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Jhalkaribai, Ghezo, Richard Bright, and Francisco Antonio Pinto.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck ranks 3,025 out of 7,253. Before him are William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1560), Hugo Schiff (1834), Norbert Burgmüller (1810), Karl Möbius (1825), Richard Wilhelm (1873), and Salomea of Berg (1093). After him are Johann Theodor of Bavaria (1703), Ulf Kirsten (1965), Oliver Hirschbiegel (1957), Princess Anna of Saxony (1836), Johann Melchior Molter (1696), and John VII, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1558).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck ranks 78. Before him are Ernst Schäfer (1910), Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850), Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805), August Batsch (1761), Jean Cabanis (1816), and Karl Möbius (1825). After him are Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627), Johann Jakob Heckel (1790), Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743), Alexander Braun (1805), Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782), and Georg von Langsdorff (1774).

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