BIOLOGIST

Georg von Langsdorff

1774 - 1852

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Georg Heinrich Freiherr von Langsdorff (8 April 1774 – 9 June 1852) was a German naturalist and explorer, as well as a Russian diplomat, better known by his Russian name, Grigori Ivanovich Langsdorf. He was a naturalist and physician on the First Russian circumnavigation from 1803 to 1805. Later Langsdorff was nominated consul general of Russia in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georg von Langsdorff has received more than 19,361 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Georg von Langsdorff is the 428th most popular biologist, the 3,192nd most popular biography from Germany and the 84th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Georg von Langsdorff ranks 428 out of 1,097. Before him are Lucien Quélet, Juan Ignacio Molina, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Frédéric Cuvier, Carl Alexander Clerck, and Alain Bombard. After him are Göran Wahlenberg, Henrik Steffens, Jacob Georg Agardh, Olof Swartz, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, and Lorenz Heister.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Georg von Langsdorff ranks 24. Before him are Lord William Bentinck, Francis Baily, Matthew Flinders, Pierre Rode, Daniel D. Tompkins, and Marie-Denise Villers. After him are Karl Mollweide, André Marie Constant Duméril, Meriwether Lewis, Václav Tomášek, Elizabeth Ann Seton, and Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse. Among people deceased in 1852, Georg von Langsdorff ranks 40. Before him are Louisa Adams, Augustus Pugin, Edward Bransfield, Carl Borivoj Presl, Georg August Wallin, and James Pradier. After him are Bernardino Drovetti, Francisco Javier Castaños, 1st Duke of Bailén, John Lloyd Stephens, Eugène Burnouf, Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg, and Nicolae Bălcescu.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg von Langsdorff ranks 3,192 out of 7,253. Before him are Adam Müller (1779), Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1732), Cornelius Gurlitt (1820), Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1839), Susan Blakely (1948), and Jens Böhrnsen (1949). After him are Alfred Schwarzmann (1912), Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine (1456), Abraham a Sancta Clara (1644), Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743), Dorothea Maria of Anhalt (1574), and Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Georg von Langsdorff ranks 84. Before him are Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627), Johann Jakob Heckel (1790), Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743), Alexander Braun (1805), and Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782). After him are Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834), Lorenz Heister (1683), Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786), Ernst Hartert (1859), Alwin Berger (1871), and Heinrich Boie (1794).

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