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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 42,205 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Erik Acharius is the 220th most popular biologist (up from 323rd in 2019), the 270th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 348th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.21

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Erik Acharius ranks 220 out of 841. Before him are Willi Hennig, Thomas Browne, Pierre Belon, Michael Rosbash, Bernard Germain de Lacépède, and Michael W. Young. After him are Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Adolf Engler, Eva Ekeblad, Bruce Beutler, H. Robert Horvitz, and Peter Forsskål.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1757, Erik Acharius ranks 17. Before him are Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, George Vancouver, Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, and Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt. After him are Michel-Gabriel Paccard, Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony, and Vladimir Borovikovsky. Among people deceased in 1819, Erik Acharius ranks 15. Before him are Daniel Rutherford, August von Kotzebue, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco, Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Sophie Blanchard. After him are Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, Bodawpaya, Abbé Faria, Alexander Tormasov, and Johan David Åkerblad.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Erik Acharius ranks 270 out of 1,612. Before him are Elsa Beskow (1874), Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland (1979), Árni Magnússon (1663), Hans Blix (1928), Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871), and Björn Waldegård (1943). After him are Hjalmar Söderberg (1869), Thorbjörn Fälldin (1926), Oskar Klein (1894), Eva Ekeblad (1724), Karin Boye (1900), and Johan Vilhelm Snellman (1806).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Erik Acharius ranks 9. Before him are Tomas Lindahl (1938), Carl Peter Thunberg (1743), Elias Magnus Fries (1794), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), and Adam Afzelius (1750). After him are Eva Ekeblad (1724), Anders Sparrman (1748), Göran Wahlenberg (1780), Pehr Kalm (1716), Daniel Solander (1733), and Anders Dahl (1751).

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