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BIOLOGIST

Karl Koch

1809 - 1879

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Karl Heinrich Emil Koch (6 June 1809 – 25 May 1879) was a German botanist. He is best known for his botanical explorations in the Caucasus region, including northeast Turkey. Most of his collections have today been lost. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Koch has received more than 15,629 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Koch is the 335th most popular biologist (up from 352nd in 2019), the 2,691st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,550th in 2019) and the 60th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Karl Koch ranks 335 out of 841Before him are Carl Ludwig Blume, Alexander von Nordmann, Ian Wilmut, François-Alphonse Forel, Takenoshin Nakai, and Emil Christian Hansen. After him are John Stevens Henslow, John Needham, John Sulston, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Leizu, and Charles Chamberland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Karl Koch ranks 39Before him are Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Jules Favre, Edward FitzGerald, Heinrich Hoffmann, and Matsumura Sōkon. After him are Joseph Jenkins Roberts, James Glaisher, Kit Carson, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Cyrus McCormick, and Rutherford Alcock. Among people deceased in 1879, Karl Koch ranks 28Before him are August Grisebach, Baldomero Espartero, Camille Doncieux, Prince Henry of the Netherlands, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, and Begum Hazrat Mahal. After him are Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Ludwig Reichenbach, Michel Chevalier, Sergey Solovyov, Nikolai Zaremba, and Joseph Poelaert.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Koch ranks 2,691 out of 6,142Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663), Armin T. Wegner (1886), Marianne Sägebrecht (1945), Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1897), John William III, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1666), and Maximilian, Margrave of Baden (1933). After him are Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (1468), Prince Johann Georg of Saxony (1869), Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg (1684), Stefan Heym (1913), Louis III, Duke of Bavaria (1269), and George II, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1789).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Karl Koch ranks 60Before him are Albert Günther (1830), Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811), Ernst Schäfer (1910), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), and Carl Ludwig Blume (1796). After him are Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665), Eugen Fischer (1874), Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743), and Carl Sigismund Kunth (1788).