BIOLOGIST

Johann Gerhard König

1728 - 1785

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Johann Gerhard König (29 November 1728 – 26 June 1785) was a Baltic German botanist and physician who served in the Tranquebar Mission, India before joining service under the Nawab of Arcot, and then the English East India Company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Gerhard König has received more than 20,355 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Johann Gerhard König is the 554th most popular biologist (up from 692nd in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 132nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Latvian Biologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Gerhard König ranks 554 out of 1,097. Before him are Akira Miyawaki, John Gilbert Baker, Alice Hamilton, Otto Kuntze, Augustin Saint-Hilaire, and Salomon Müller. After him are Oscar Hertwig, Edward Forbes, Andrew Smith, Johannes Burman, Mary Agnes Chase, and Karl Alfred von Zittel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Johann Gerhard König ranks 29. Before him are Johann Andreas Stein, Hiraga Gennai, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Ferdinando Galiani, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, and José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca. After him are John Wilkinson, Ivan Polzunov, Pietro Verri, Thomas Warton, Caesar Rodney, and Mercy Otis Warren. Among people deceased in 1785, Johann Gerhard König ranks 18. Before him are Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg, Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duchess Frederica of Württemberg, Ali-Morad Khan Zand, Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Johan Herman Wessel. After him are Gottfried August Homilius, Stephen Hopkins, John Belchier, Ventura Rodríguez, János Sajnovics, and George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Johann Gerhard König ranks 106 out of 323. Before him are Vija Artmane (1929), Arvīds Jansons (1914), Anatoly Solovyev (1948), Alexander von Keyserling (1815), Morris Halle (1923), and Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen (1913). After him are Jānis Krūmiņš (1930), Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829), Balys Dvarionas (1904), Walter Zapp (1905), Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg (1802), and Georg August Schweinfurth (1836).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Latvia

Among biologists born in Latvia, Johann Gerhard König ranks 4. Before him are Karl Eichwald (1795), Alexander Kovalevsky (1840), and Heinz Christian Pander (1794). After him are Georg August Schweinfurth (1836), and Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809).

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