BIOLOGIST

Curt Backeberg

1894 - 1966

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Curt Backeberg (2 August 1894 in Lüneburg, Germany – 14 January 1966) was a German horticulturist especially known for the collection and classification of cacti. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Curt Backeberg has received more than 18,808 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Curt Backeberg is the 708th most popular biologist (up from 742nd in 2019), the 4,486th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,246th in 2019) and the 154th most popular German Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 19k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Curt Backebergs by language

Over the past year Curt Backeberg has had the most page views in the with 1,958 views, followed by German (938), and Spanish (729). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latin (48.73%), Ukrainian (47.78%), and Hungarian (46.25%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Curt Backeberg ranks 708 out of 1,097. Before him are Ruth Arnon, Jane Colden, Édouard Spach, Ignaz Schiffermüller, Richard Lewontin, and Philip Barker-Webb. After him are Josephine Kablick, George Newbold Lawrence, Friedrich Reinitzer, François Marie Daudin, Joseph Leidy, and Richard Wettstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Curt Backeberg ranks 197. Before him are Jean Debucourt, Tiny Sandford, Corinne Griffith, Vitaly Bianki, Nita Naldi, and Gunnar Sköld. After him are Nicolas Slonimsky, Johannes Block, Janko Alexy, Heikki Liimatainen, Bevil Rudd, and Albert Préjean. Among people deceased in 1966, Curt Backeberg ranks 153. Before him are Sofya Yanovskaya, Santiago Lovell, Seán T. O'Kelly, Naima Akef, Harry Beaumont, and Cordwainer Smith. After him are Christian Herter, Pablo Birger, Joel Stebbins, Mississippi John Hurt, Josef von Báky, and Elliot See.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Curt Backeberg ranks 4,486 out of 7,253. Before him are Gerhard Ritter (1888), Paul Rudolf von Bilguer (1815), Paul du Bois-Reymond (1831), Ümit Davala (1973), Herbert Runge (1913), and Sven Väth (1964). After him are Peter-Michael Kolbe (1953), Ulrike Meyfarth (1956), Oskar Sala (1910), Julius Curtius (1877), Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867), and Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels (1673).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Curt Backeberg ranks 154. Before him are Ole Borch (1626), Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773), Ernst Stromer (1871), Johann Jakob Kaup (1803), Johannes Baptista von Albertini (1769), and Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804). After him are Albert Bernhard Frank (1839), Emilie Snethlage (1868), Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz (1804), Karl Julius Perleb (1794), Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684), and Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808).

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