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Jacob Georg Agardh

1813 - 1901

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Jacob Georg Agardh (8 December 1813 in Lund, Sweden – 17 January 1901 in Lund, Sweden) was a Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist. He was the son of Carl Adolph Agardh, and from 1854 until 1879 was professor of botany at Lund University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacob Georg Agardh has received more than 25,678 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacob Georg Agardh is the 462nd most popular biologist (down from 435th in 2019), the 471st most popular biography from Sweden (down from 420th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jacob Georg Agardh ranks 462 out of 841Before him are Edouard Van Beneden, Sabiha Kasimati, Carl Borivoj Presl, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Otto von Münchhausen, and Gregory Winter. After him are W. D. Hamilton, Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, Jean Victoir Audouin, Jacob Sturm, and Richard Lydekker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Jacob Georg Agardh ranks 47Before him are William Smith, Carl Jaenisch, Stephen Heller, Antonio García Gutiérrez, Prince August of Württemberg, and József Eötvös. After him are Theodor Kotschy, Nikolay Ogarev, Otto Ludwig, John C. Frémont, Jean Stas, and Louise-Victorine Ackermann. Among people deceased in 1901, Jacob Georg Agardh ranks 51Before him are Carlo Alfredo Piatti, Arvid Posse, Aleksander Gierymski, Alfred Tysoe, Wojciech Gerson, and Marthinus Wessel Pretorius. After him are Alexander Kovalevsky, Peter Benoit, Jules Barbier, Edward John Eyre, Frederic W. H. Myers, and August Malmström.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Jacob Georg Agardh ranks 471 out of 1,612Before him are Caspar Bartholin the Elder (1585), Sigrid Hjertén (1885), Ernst Fast (1881), Anna Q. Nilsson (1888), Björn Nordqvist (1942), and Karin Bergöö Larsson (1859). After him are Felix Hamrin (1875), Elizabeth Hesselblad (1870), Fanny Brate (1861), Thomas Hammarberg (1942), Jenny Nyström (1854), and Petra Mede (1970).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Jacob Georg Agardh ranks 21Before him are Anders Dahl (1751), Olof Swartz (1760), Peter Artedi (1705), Svante Pääbo (1955), Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743), and Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898). After him are Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801), Nils Johan Andersson (1821), Karl Rudolphi (1771), Charles De Geer (1720), and Carl Alexander Clerck (1710).