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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 28,262 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Franz Meyen is the 564th most popular biologist (down from 547th in 2019), the 1,421st most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,224th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Russian Biologist.

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  • 48.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Franz Meyen ranks 564 out of 841. Before him are Janaki Ammal, Anne McLaren, Ludwik Hirszfeld, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Carl Alexander Clerck, and Joseph Banks Rhine. After him are Tomitaro Makino, Frederic Clements, Francis Collins, Gustav Radde, Achille Richard, and Alfred Sturtevant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Franz Meyen ranks 53. Before him are Jules Dupuit, Victor Schœlcher, Jules Janin, Alvan Clark, Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, and Louis-François-Clement Breguet. After him are Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, Richard Cobden, Salomon Müller, Julius Benedict, Alfred Moquin-Tandon, and Wilhelm Bendz. Among people deceased in 1840, Franz Meyen ranks 36. Before him are Karl Otfried Müller, Frances Burney, Carl Blechen, Johann Michael Vogl, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, and Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. After him are Joseph Johann von Littrow, Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, Karl Leberecht Immermann, James Prinsep, José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, and John Abbot.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Franz Meyen ranks 1,421 out of 3,262. Before him are Jürgen Moser (1928), Nikolai Panin (1872), Ludvig Faddeev (1934), Mikhail Pugovkin (1923), Helene Fischer (1984), and Dmitry Senyavin (1763). After him are Ivan Aksakov (1823), Lev Artsimovich (1909), Elvira Nabiullina (1963), Aino Kallas (1878), Savva Mamontov (1841), and Aleksandr Gerasimov (1881).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Franz Meyen ranks 14. Before him are Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Vladimir Demikhov (1916), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Kliment Timiryazev (1843), and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799). After him are Fritz Schaudinn (1871), Nikolay Drozdov (1937), Edwin Klebs (1834), Johann Friedrich Adam (1780), Alexei Fedchenko (1844), and David Keilin (1887).

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