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Christian Konrad Sprengel

1750 - 1816

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Christian Konrad Sprengel (22 September 1750 – 7 April 1816) was a German naturalist, theologist, and teacher. He is most famous for his research on plant sexuality. Sprengel was the first to recognize that the function of flowers was to attract insects, and that nature favoured cross-pollination. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christian Konrad Sprengel has received more than 34,252 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Christian Konrad Sprengel is the 457th most popular chemist (down from 410th in 2019), the 3,946th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,214th in 2019) and the 81st most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Christian Konrad Sprengel ranks 457 out of 509Before him are Julia Lermontova, Albert Kluyver, Maclyn McCarty, Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen, Ludwig Mond, and Carl Jacob Löwig. After him are Robin Hill, William Hallowes Miller, Robert Havemann, Adolph Strecker, Caleb Bradham, and Hans Goldschmidt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, Christian Konrad Sprengel ranks 37Before him are Anton Stamitz, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Henry Knox, Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, Princess Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, and Ignacy Potocki. After him are Besiki, Prince Frederick of Great Britain, Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, John André, Frederick Muhlenberg, and Isaac Shelby. Among people deceased in 1816, Christian Konrad Sprengel ranks 25Before him are Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Edward Charles Howard, Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, and Dorothea Jordan. After him are Hipólito Ruiz López, Samuel Dexter, Gouverneur Morris, and James McHenry.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Konrad Sprengel ranks 3,946 out of 6,142Before him are Ludwig Mond (1839), Sylvester Groth (1958), Prince John August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1704), Carl Jacob Löwig (1803), Gerhard Fieseler (1896), and Joachim Fuchsberger (1927). After him are Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1705), Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916), Jordanus de Nemore (null), Bernd Schneider (1973), Ferdinand Zirkel (1838), and Emanuel Geibel (1815).

Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Christian Konrad Sprengel ranks 81Before him are Ferdinand Reich (1799), Hugo Schiff (1834), Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (1834), Carl Remigius Fresenius (1818), Ludwig Mond (1839), and Carl Jacob Löwig (1803). After him are Robert Havemann (1910), Adolph Strecker (1822), Hans Goldschmidt (1861), Theodor Curtius (1857), Heinrich Rose (1795), and Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842).