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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 18,971 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Gerhard König is the 693rd most popular biologist, the 132nd most popular biography from Latvia and the 5th most popular Latvian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Gerhard König ranks 693 out of 841Before him are Carl Chun, William Hemsley, Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet, William Sherard, David Don, and Élie-Abel Carrière. After him are Jacob Bjerknes, Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, Miles Joseph Berkeley, Theobald Smith, Karel Domin, and Thomas Campbell Eyton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Johann Gerhard König ranks 30Before him are Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Hiraga Gennai, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, John Wilkinson, José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca, and Ivan Polzunov. After him are Caesar Rodney and Mercy Otis Warren. Among people deceased in 1785, Johann Gerhard König ranks 19Before him are Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duchess Frederica of Württemberg, Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, Johan Herman Wessel, Gottfried August Homilius, and Ali-Morad Khan Zand. After him are Ventura Rodríguez, Stephen Hopkins, James Oglethorpe, John Belchier, and George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Johann Gerhard König ranks 132 out of 284Before him are Imants Kalniņš (1941), Andris Bērziņš (1951), Helmuts Balderis (1952), Laima Vaikule (1954), Andrejs Upīts (1877), and Māris Kučinskis (1961). After him are Kārlis Skalbe (1879), Imants Ziedonis (1933), Indra Devi (1899), Jānis Endzelīns (1873), Anna Brigadere (1861), and Valdis Birkavs (1942).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Latvia

Among biologists born in Latvia, Johann Gerhard König ranks 5Before him are Georg August Schweinfurth (1836), Karl Eichwald (1795), Alexander Kovalevsky (1840), and Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809).