BIOLOGIST

Heinrich Moritz Willkomm

1821 - 1895

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Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (29 June 1821, Herwigsdorf – 26 August 1895, Schloss Wartenberg in Wartenberg am Rollberg, Bohemia) was a German botanist who served as a professor of botany at Tharandt, the University of Dorpat and at the University of Prague. He travelled widely across Spain and Portugal and became a specialist on the flora of the Iberian region. The standard author abbreviation Willk. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinrich Moritz Willkomm has received more than 16,946 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Moritz Willkomm is the 840th most popular biologist, the 4,951st most popular biography from Germany and the 179th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm ranks 840 out of 1,097Before him are Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, Zinaida Yermolyeva, Judah Folkman, Edmund Reitter, and Palisot de Beauvois. After him are Casimir de Candolle, Mary Katharine Brandegee, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Gustav Lindau, William John Burchell, and D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm ranks 91Before him are Mathilde Marchesi, William Henry Vanderbilt, Juan Bautista Topete, Amalie Dietrich, George Williams, and Carl Bolle. After him are Jan van Beers, Robert O'Hara Burke, Charles Tupper, Churchill Babington, Daniel Harvey Hill, and Old Tom Morris. Among people deceased in 1895, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm ranks 81Before him are Bertha Valerius, Luigi Giuseppe Lasagna, Joseph Thomson, Giuseppe Prinzi, Abu Bakar of Johor, and Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque. After him are Ludwig Schläfli, Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello, Charles Frédéric Girard, Henry Seebohm, Walter Q. Gresham, and Richard Morris Hunt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm ranks 4,951 out of 7,253Before him are Wolfgang Blochwitz (1941), Wolfgang Seidel (1926), Hanns Seidel (1901), Albert Ladenburg (1842), Philipp Plein (1978), and Thomas Struth (1954). After him are Adolf Bartels (1862), Nikolaus Pevsner (1902), Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930), Carl Hindenburg (1741), Gustav Lindau (1866), and Martin Wuttke (1962).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm ranks 179Before him are Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829), Carl Bolle (1821), Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774), Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (1816), Max Fürbringer (1846), and Eduard von Martens (1831). After him are Gustav Lindau (1866), Hermann Harms (1870), Jakob Emanuel Lange (1864), Johann August Ephraim Goeze (1731), Otto Bütschli (1848), and Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (1825).