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Friedrich Welwitsch

1806 - 1872

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Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (25 February 1806 – 20 October 1872) was an Austrian explorer and botanist who in Angola was the first European to describe the plant Welwitschia mirabilis. His report received wide attention among the botanists and general public, comparable only to the discovery of two other plants in the 19th century, namely Victoria amazonica and Rafflesia arnoldii.In Angola, Welwitsch also discovered Rhipsalis baccifera, the only cactus species naturally occurring outside the New World. It was found a few years later in Sri Lanka too, which reignited the now already one-and-a-half-century-old debate on the origin of cacti in Africa and Asia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friedrich Welwitsch has received more than 28,851 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Friedrich Welwitsch is the 329th most popular explorer (down from 305th in 2019), the 727th most popular biography from Austria (down from 671st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Austrian Explorer.

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  • 50.77

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Friedrich Welwitsch has had the most page views in the with 4,080 views, followed by German (1,936), and Spanish (971). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (104.23%), Esperanto (63.58%), and Swedish (46.94%)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Friedrich Welwitsch ranks 329 out of 498. Before him are William Clark, Bento de Góis, Martim Afonso de Sousa, Alexander Dalrymple, Grímur Kamban, and Louise Arner Boyd. After him are Louis de Freycinet, Pyotr Beketov, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, John C. Frémont, Félix de Azara, and Philip Carteret.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Friedrich Welwitsch ranks 39. Before him are Henriette Sontag, Teodolfo Mertel, Jovan Sterija Popović, Gaetano Bedini, Vladimir Alexeyevich Kornilov, and Julius Weisbach. After him are Stand Watie, Fabre Geffrard, Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, Georg Adolf Erman, Michele Amari, and Ivan Kireyevsky. Among people deceased in 1872, Friedrich Welwitsch ranks 47. Before him are Horace Greeley, Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Martin Ohm, Michele Carafa, Benjamin Briggs, and George Catlin. After him are Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Andrew Smith, Michel Carré, Henry Halleck, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, and Hugo von Mohl.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Friedrich Welwitsch ranks 727 out of 1,424. Before him are Alfred Berger (1894), Egon Wellesz (1885), František Svoboda (1906), Archduke Friedrich of Austria (1821), Erwin Komenda (1904), and Harald Reinl (1908). After him are Elisabeth von Gutmann (1875), Karl H. Pribram (1919), Fritz Kortner (1892), Walter Berry (1929), Caroline Unger (1803), and Ceija Stojka (1933).

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Among EXPLORERS In Austria

Among explorers born in Austria, Friedrich Welwitsch ranks 2. Before him are László Almásy (1895). After him are Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein (1759), and Oscar Baumann (1864).

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