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BIOLOGIST

Johann Hedwig

1730 - 1799

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Johann Hedwig (8 December 1730 – 18 February 1799), also styled as Johannes Hedwig, was a German botanist notable for his studies of mosses. He is sometimes called the "father of bryology". He is known for his particular observations of sexual reproduction in the cryptogams. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Hedwig has received more than 26,978 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Hedwig is the 428th most popular biologist (down from 330th in 2019), the 221st most popular biography from Romania (down from 166th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Romanian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Hedwig ranks 428 out of 841. Before him are Giuseppe Acerbi, Alexander Braun, Otto Friedrich Müller, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Auguste Chevalier, and Harald Sverdrup. After him are Oscar Hertwig, Henri Ernest Baillon, Imre Frivaldszky, Karl Gegenbaur, Heinrich Kuhl, and Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Johann Hedwig ranks 23. Before him are Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, William Hudson, Augustin Pajou, Salomon Gessner, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, and Otto Friedrich Müller. After him are Sophie von La Roche, Henry Clinton, Princess Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Philippsthal, and Noël Martin Joseph de Necker. Among people deceased in 1799, Johann Hedwig ranks 28. Before him are Pierre Pigneau de Behaine, Claude Balbastre, Marcus Elieser Bloch, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, William Curtis, and Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz. After him are Giuseppe Parini, Francesco Mario Pagano, Jean-Étienne Montucla, Landgravine Juliane of Hesse-Philippsthal, Johann Julius Walbaum, and William Withering.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Johann Hedwig ranks 221 out of 665. Before him are Patriarch Miron of Romania (1868), Sebastian Stan (1982), Alexander Vencel (1944), Matei Basarab (1580), Miklós Bánffy (1873), and Sabbas the Goth (334). After him are Constantin Constantinescu-Claps (1884), Inna (1986), Olha Kobylianska (1863), Adrian Năstase (1950), Ferenc Kazinczy (1759), and Răzvan Lucescu (1969).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Romania

Among biologists born in Romania, Johann Hedwig ranks 2. Before him are Ana Aslan (1897). After him are Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás (1877), Aaron Aaronsohn (1876), Emil Racoviță (1868), and Grigore Antipa (1867).

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