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BIOLOGIST

Elias Magnus Fries

1794 - 1878

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Elias Magnus Fries (15 August 1794 – 8 February 1878) was a Swedish mycologist and botanist. He is sometimes called the "Linnaeus of Mycology". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elias Magnus Fries has received more than 93,643 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Elias Magnus Fries is the 134th most popular biologist (up from 155th in 2019), the 164th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 203rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Elias Magnus Fries ranks 134 out of 841. Before him are Gaspard Bauhin, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Aimé Bonpland, Martin Evans, Edward B. Lewis, and Carl Woese. After him are James Bond, Walther Flemming, Macfarlane Burnet, Joshua Lederberg, Hamilton O. Smith, and Nettie Stevens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Elias Magnus Fries ranks 3. Before him are Antonio López de Santa Anna and Matthew C. Perry. After him are Cornelius Vanderbilt, Theobald Boehm, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Ignaz Moscheles, William Whewell, Wilhelm Müller, Józef Bem, Aimable Pélissier, and Ami Boué. Among people deceased in 1878, Elias Magnus Fries ranks 14. Before him are Charles-François Daubigny, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, George V of Hanover, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, and Nikolay Nekrasov. After him are Angelo Secchi, Ōkubo Toshimichi, Antoine César Becquerel, Mercedes of Orléans, Mariam Baouardy, and Henri Victor Regnault.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Elias Magnus Fries ranks 164 out of 1,612. Before him are Alexander Roslin (1718), Stenkil (1030), Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (1681), Margaret Leijonhufvud (1516), Gustaf de Laval (1845), and Karin Månsdotter (1550). After him are Eric XII of Sweden (1339), Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Inge the Younger (1100), Kurt Hamrin (1934), Toomas Hendrik Ilves (1953), and Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Elias Magnus Fries ranks 5. Before him are Carl Linnaeus (1707), Hugo Theorell (1903), Tomas Lindahl (1938), and Carl Peter Thunberg (1743). After him are Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Adam Afzelius (1750), Erik Acharius (1757), Eva Ekeblad (1724), Anders Sparrman (1748), and Göran Wahlenberg (1780).

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