BIOLOGIST

Göran Wahlenberg

1780 - 1851

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Georg (Göran) Wahlenberg (1 October 1780 – 22 March 1851) was a Swedish naturalist. He was born in Kroppa, Värmland County. Wahlenberg matriculated at Uppsala University in 1792, received his doctorate in Medicine in 1806, was appointed botanices demonstrator in 1814, and professor of medicine and botany in 1829, succeeding Carl Peter Thunberg. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Göran Wahlenberg has received more than 20,218 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Göran Wahlenberg is the 429th most popular biologist (down from 348th in 2019), the 425th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 375th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Göran Wahlenberg ranks 429 out of 1,097. Before him are Juan Ignacio Molina, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Frédéric Cuvier, Carl Alexander Clerck, Alain Bombard, and Georg von Langsdorff. After him are Henrik Steffens, Jacob Georg Agardh, Olof Swartz, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Lorenz Heister, and Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Göran Wahlenberg ranks 31. Before him are Princess Augusta of Prussia, Conradin Kreutzer, Élie, duc Decazes, Alexandre Deschapelles, Robert Torrens, and Reşid Mehmed Pasha. After him are Juana Azurduy de Padilla, Alexey Venetsianov, Richard Mentor Johnson, Johannes van den Bosch, Fulgencio Yegros, and José Joaquín de Olmedo. Among people deceased in 1851, Göran Wahlenberg ranks 31. Before him are Karl Gützlaff, Leopold, Prince of Salerno, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Stanko Vraz, and Conrad Graf. After him are Alexander Alyabyev, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol, Ramón Freire, Marie Jules César Savigny, and Leopold II, Prince of Lippe.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Göran Wahlenberg ranks 425 out of 1,879. Before him are Åsa Larsson (1966), Princess Sophia of Sweden (1547), Stefan Johansson (1956), Ernst Trygger (1857), Carl Alexander Clerck (1710), and Anita Björk (1923). After him are Orvar Bergmark (1930), Jacob Georg Agardh (1813), Margot Wallström (1954), Sixten Jernberg (1929), Olof Swartz (1760), and Carl Johan Thyselius (1811).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Göran Wahlenberg ranks 17. Before him are Adam Afzelius (1750), Anders Sparrman (1748), Daniel Solander (1733), Peter Artedi (1705), Pehr Kalm (1716), and Carl Alexander Clerck (1710). After him are Jacob Georg Agardh (1813), Olof Swartz (1760), Anders Dahl (1751), Charles De Geer (1720), Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801), and Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743).

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