BIOLOGIST

Franz Meyen

1804 - 1840

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Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen (28 June 1804 – 2 September 1840) was a Prussian physician and botanist. Meyen was born in Tilsit, East Prussia. In 1830 he wrote Phytotomie, the first major study of plant anatomy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Meyen has received more than 30,197 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Franz Meyen is the 537th most popular biologist (up from 563rd in 2019), the 1,368th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,417th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Russian Biologist.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Franz Meyen ranks 537 out of 1,097. Before him are Frederic Clements, Basilius Besler, Gustav Radde, Craig Mello, William Curtis, and Janaki Ammal. After him are Marie Jules César Savigny, Paul Bert, Oswald Heer, Albrecht Thaer, Johann Friedrich Meckel, and Alfred Newton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Franz Meyen ranks 55. Before him are Carl, 3rd Prince of Leiningen, Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg, Richard Cobden, Alvan Clark, Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel, and Jules Janin. After him are Gheorghe Bibescu, Salomon Müller, Mykhailo Maksymovych, Wilhelm Bendz, Osceola, and Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient. Among people deceased in 1840, Franz Meyen ranks 36. Before him are Johann Michael Vogl, Frances Burney, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Dingane kaSenzangakhona, Carl Blechen, and Sidney Smith. After him are Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Anthony Carlisle, Karl Leberecht Immermann, Joseph Johann von Littrow, John Abbot, and Paul Rudolf von Bilguer.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Franz Meyen ranks 1,368 out of 3,761. Before him are Maria Ouspenskaya (1876), Vladimir Tkachenko (1957), Innokenty Annensky (1855), Pavel Durov (1984), Viktor Grishin (1914), and Pavel Chistyakov (1832). After him are Armas Järnefelt (1869), Pyotr Tkachev (1844), Yuli Daniel (1925), Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (1962), Oleg Salyukov (1955), and Kaj Franck (1911).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Franz Meyen ranks 16. Before him are Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Kliment Timiryazev (1843), Dmitry Belyayev (1917), Edwin Klebs (1834), and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799). After him are Fritz Schaudinn (1871), Nikolay Drozdov (1937), Alexei Fedchenko (1844), David Keilin (1887), Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (1869), and Zinaida Yermolyeva (1898).

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