BIOLOGIST

Franz Xaver von Wulfen

1728 - 1805

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Franz Xaver Freiherr von Wulfen (5 November 1728 – 17 March 1805) was an Austrian botanist, zoologist, mineralogist, alpinist, and Jesuit priest. He is credited with discovering the flowering plants Wulfenia carinthiaca, Saxifraga moschata, and Stellaria bulbosa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Xaver von Wulfen has received more than 24,317 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Xaver von Wulfen is the 377th most popular biologist (up from 424th in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Serbia (up from 156th in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Biologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Franz Xaver von Wulfen ranks 377 out of 1,097. Before him are Daniel Solander, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, René Lesson, Brian Kobilka, and John Stevens Henslow. After him are Theodor Boveri, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Joy Adamson, Antonio José Cavanilles, Ludwig Reichenbach, and Samuel Frederick Gray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Franz Xaver von Wulfen ranks 25. Before him are Matthew Boulton, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Wallis, Carlo Allioni, Johann Andreas Stein, and Hiraga Gennai. After him are Ferdinando Galiani, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca, Johann Gerhard König, John Wilkinson, and Ivan Polzunov. Among people deceased in 1805, Franz Xaver von Wulfen ranks 18. Before him are Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, Conrad Moench, Aloys I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Pehr Osbeck, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, and Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti. After him are William Paley, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Ji Yun, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, and Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Franz Xaver von Wulfen ranks 147 out of 661. Before him are Aleksandar Tirnanić (1910), Petar Bojović (1858), Petar of Serbia (870), Šaban Bajramović (1936), Mihailo Petrović (1868), and Vladica Popović (1935). After him are Sinan Sakić (1956), Aleksandar Tišma (1924), Lola Novaković (1935), Momir Bulatović (1956), Bogdan Bogdanović (1922), and Sava II (1199).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Serbia

Among biologists born in Serbia, Franz Xaver von Wulfen ranks 1. 

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