BIOLOGIST

Erik Acharius

1757 - 1819

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Erik Acharius (10 October 1757 – 14 August 1819) was a Swedish botanist who pioneered the taxonomy of lichens and is known as the "father of lichenology". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erik Acharius has received more than 45,210 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Erik Acharius is the 169th most popular biologist (up from 219th in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 269th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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  • 45k

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  • 60.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Erik Acharius ranks 169 out of 1,097. Before him are Susumu Tonegawa, Robert Whittaker, Johan Christian Fabricius, Renato Dulbecco, Georges J. F. Köhler, and Pierre André Latreille. After him are César Milstein, Paul Greengard, John Boyd Orr, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, Ana Aslan, and Wilhelm Johannsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1757, Erik Acharius ranks 12. Before him are Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, Pierre Augereau, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Rigas Feraios, and George Vancouver. After him are Ignaz Pleyel, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, and Ercole Consalvi. Among people deceased in 1819, Erik Acharius ranks 11. Before him are Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia, Kamehameha I, Daniel Rutherford, Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, and August von Kotzebue. After him are Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, Sophie Blanchard, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, and Bodawpaya.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Erik Acharius ranks 183 out of 1,879. Before him are Lars Levi Laestadius (1800), Carl Bildt (1949), Karin Månsdotter (1550), Catherine of Vadstena (1331), PewDiePie (1989), and Johan August Arfwedson (1792). After him are Tage Erlander (1901), Lars Lagerbäck (1948), Gunilla Bielke (1568), Hans Blix (1928), Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland (1979), and Bo Larsson (1944).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Erik Acharius ranks 9. Before him are Svante Pääbo (1955), Elias Magnus Fries (1794), Tomas Lindahl (1938), Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), and Olaus Rudbeck (1630). After him are Eva Ekeblad (1724), Adam Afzelius (1750), Anders Sparrman (1748), Daniel Solander (1733), Peter Artedi (1705), and Pehr Kalm (1716).

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