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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 18,520 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Göran Wahlenberg is the 349th most popular biologist (up from 421st in 2019), the 376th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 407th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Göran Wahlenberg ranks 349 out of 841Before him are Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Eugen Fischer, William Speirs Bruce, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, and Carl Sigismund Kunth. After him are Antonio José Cavanilles, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Odoardo Beccari, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, John Maynard Smith, and Paul Nurse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Göran Wahlenberg ranks 27Before him are Angelica Catalani, Princess Augusta of Prussia, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Anastasio Bustamante, Johannes van den Bosch, and Alexandre Deschapelles. After him are Conradin Kreutzer, Richard Mentor Johnson, Élie, duc Decazes, Alexey Venetsianov, Fulgencio Yegros, and Juana Azurduy de Padilla. Among people deceased in 1851, Göran Wahlenberg ranks 29Before him are Vincenz Priessnitz, Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta, Karl Gützlaff, Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Lorenz Oken, and Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link. After him are Baji Rao II, Alexander Alyabyev, Stanko Vraz, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, and Esteban Echeverría.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Göran Wahlenberg ranks 376 out of 1,612Before him are Esaias Tegnér (1782), Laurentius Petri (1499), Lennart Carleson (1928), Per Oscarsson (1927), Marianne Fredriksson (1927), and Malena Ernman (1970). After him are Sofia Helin (1972), Slim Borgudd (1946), Pehr Kalm (1716), William Chambers (1723), Lars Hörmander (1931), and Gustav Cassel (1866).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Göran Wahlenberg ranks 12Before him are Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Adam Afzelius (1750), Erik Acharius (1757), Eva Ekeblad (1724), and Anders Sparrman (1748). After him are Pehr Kalm (1716), Daniel Solander (1733), Anders Dahl (1751), Olof Swartz (1760), Peter Artedi (1705), and Svante Pääbo (1955).