BIOLOGIST

Johan August Wahlberg

1810 - 1856

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Johan August Wahlberg (9 October 1810, in Lackarebäck, Sweden – 6 March 1856, in Lake Ngami, Bechuanaland) was a Swedish naturalist and explorer. Wahlberg started studying chemistry at the University of Uppsala in 1829, and later forestry, agronomy and natural science, graduating from the Swedish Forestry Institute in 1834. In 1832 he joined Professor Carl Henrik Boheman, a famous entomologist, on a collecting trip to Norway. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johan August Wahlberg has received more than 20,442 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Johan August Wahlberg is the 685th most popular biologist (down from 575th in 2019).

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johan August Wahlberg ranks 685 out of 1,097. Before her are Joseph Paul Gaimard, Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau, Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, John Hutchinson, Heinrich Göppert, and Émile Blanchard. After her are Lucas Alamán, Henri Cassini, August von Pelzeln, Ernst Stromer, John Abbot, and Johann Natterer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Johan August Wahlberg ranks 78. Before her are Félicien David, William Froude, Alexander Bain, Baron Ignaz von Plener, Paul Kane, and Francis de Laporte de Castelnau. After her are Louis Fraser, Little Crow, William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, José María de Achá, Johanna Kinkel, and Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea. Among people deceased in 1856, Johan August Wahlberg ranks 47. Before her are Jovan Sterija Popović, Henry Pottinger, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, Michel Félix Dunal, and Ivan Kireyevsky. After her are Joseph Meyer, Frederick William Beechey, John M. Clayton, Nicaise Auguste Desvaux, William Yarrell, and Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge.

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