BIOLOGIST

Georg August Schweinfurth

1836 - 1925

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Georg August Schweinfurth (29 December 1836 – 19 September 1925) was a Baltic German botanist and ethnologist who explored East Central Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg August Schweinfurth has received more than 41,615 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Georg August Schweinfurth is the 580th most popular biologist (down from 392nd in 2019), the 112th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 73rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Latvian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Georg August Schweinfurth ranks 580 out of 1,097. Before him are Alessandra Giliani, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, William Elford Leach, Jacob Sturm, and George Allman. After him are Harold E. Varmus, Edmond Albius, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Franz Unger, Johann Gottfried Zinn, and Tsuneko Okazaki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Georg August Schweinfurth ranks 58. Before him are Giuseppe Abbati, Edward Poynter, Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg, Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, Walery Antoni Wróblewski, and Ernst von Bergmann. After him are Bret Harte, Michał Elwiro Andriolli, Émile Étienne Guimet, Emil Hartmann, Robert Swinhoe, and John W. Foster. Among people deceased in 1925, Georg August Schweinfurth ranks 104. Before him are Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg, George Bellows, Anna Kuliscioff, Geo Milev, Ioan Slavici, and Jules Méline. After him are Surendranath Banerjee, Arkady Averchenko, James Buchanan Duke, Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics, Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt, and Park Eun-sik.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Georg August Schweinfurth ranks 112 out of 323. Before him are Johann Gerhard König (1728), Jānis Krūmiņš (1930), Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829), Balys Dvarionas (1904), Walter Zapp (1905), and Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg (1802). After him are Eduard Tisse (1897), Zenta Mauriņa (1897), Vitas (1979), Rosa von Praunheim (1942), Heinz Erhardt (1909), and Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics (1887).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Latvia

Among biologists born in Latvia, Georg August Schweinfurth ranks 5. Before him are Karl Eichwald (1795), Alexander Kovalevsky (1840), Heinz Christian Pander (1794), and Johann Gerhard König (1728). After him are Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809).

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