BIOLOGIST

Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter

1733 - 1806

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Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (27 April 1733 – 11 November 1806), also spelled Koelreuter or Kohlreuter, was a German botanist who pioneered the study of plant fertilization, hybridization and was the first to detect self-incompatibility. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter has received more than 46,300 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter is the 647th most popular biologist (down from 613th in 2019), the 4,268th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,902nd in 2019) and the 143rd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter ranks 647 out of 1,097Before him are David Don, Charles David Keeling, Everard Home, Karl Hugo Strunz, Petter Adolf Karsten, and Élie-Abel Carrière. After him are Josef August Schultes, Władysław Taczanowski, Pier Andrea Saccardo, John Sims, Tommaso Salvadori, and Nicolaus Michael Oppel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1733, Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter ranks 20Before him are George Read, Philip Carteret, Adam Naruszewicz, Johan Zoffany, Ismail III, and Richard Kirwan. After him are Mikhail Kheraskov, János Sajnovics, Philip Schuyler, and Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. Among people deceased in 1806, Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter ranks 43Before him are Charles James Fox, Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen, Gabriel François Doyen, George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, Karoline von Günderrode, and Henry Knox. After him are Ignaz Schiffermüller, Heinrich Christian Boie, Benjamin Banneker, Rana Bahadur Shah, Robert Morris, and William Paterson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter ranks 4,268 out of 7,253Before him are Özlem Türeci (1967), Sylvester Groth (1958), Leopold I, Prince of Lippe (1767), Fritz-Hubert Gräser (1888), Gerhard von Rad (1901), and Lian Ross (1962). After him are Ignaz von Rudhart (1790), Nicolaus von Amsdorf (1483), Walther Reinhardt (1872), Karl Leberecht Immermann (1796), Günther Herrmann (1939), and Burkhard Heim (1925).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter ranks 143Before him are Rolf Singer (1906), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852), Magnus Manske (1974), Adam Lonicer (1528), and Karl Hugo Strunz (1910). After him are Nicolaus Michael Oppel (1782), Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823), Hugo von Mohl (1805), Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798), Ole Borch (1626), and Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773).