BIOLOGIST

Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten

1817 - 1908

Photo of Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten

Icon of person Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten

Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (6 November 1817, in Stralsund – 10 July 1908, in Zoppot) was a German botanist and geologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten has received more than 27,331 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten is the 592nd most popular biologist (down from 510th in 2019), the 4,035th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,544th in 2019) and the 131st most popular German Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 27k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten ranks 592 out of 1,097Before him are Tsuneko Okazaki, João de Loureiro, Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, Garrett Hardin, Jean-Étienne Guettard, and Antoine Risso. After him are Euclides da Cunha, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Erwin Stresemann, Edouard Van Beneden, Carl Chun, and Charles Antoine Lemaire.

Most Popular Biologists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten ranks 62Before him are Édouard Deldevez, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, Konstantin Aksakov, Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, and Jung Bahadur Rana. After him are Charles Dancla, Richard Dadd, Ernest Hébert, José María Ventura Casas, Florian Ceynowa, and Alexandros Koumoundouros. Among people deceased in 1908, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten ranks 70Before him are Heinrich Hübschmann, Friedrich von Esmarch, Friedrich Paulsen, Paul Taffanel, Simo Matavulj, and Lester Allan Pelton. After him are Ernest Fenollosa, Milovan Glišić, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Nozu Michitsura, Herman Snellen, and René Panhard.

Others Born in 1817

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1908

Go to all Rankings

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten ranks 4,035 out of 7,253Before him are Hanna Maron (1923), James III, Margrave of Baden-Hachberg (1562), Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau (1799), Johann Georg, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1677), Marianne Cope (1838), and Tom Wlaschiha (1973). After him are Heike Makatsch (1971), Princess Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1713), Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833), Jawed Karim (1979), Sidonie of Saxony (1518), and Daniel Gottlob Türk (1750).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten ranks 131Before him are Eduard August von Regel (1815), Blasius Merrem (1761), Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809), Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782), Jacob Sturm (1771), and Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727). After him are Erwin Stresemann (1889), Carl Chun (1852), Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798), Ludwig Diels (1874), Richard Goldschmidt (1878), and Rolf Singer (1906).