BIOLOGIST

Ludwig Diels

1874 - 1945

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Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels (24 September 1874 – 30 November 1945) was a German botanist. Diels was born in Hamburg, the son of the classical scholar Hermann Alexander Diels. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ludwig Diels has received more than 18,642 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Ludwig Diels is the 603rd most popular biologist (down from 541st in 2019), the 4,093rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,638th in 2019) and the 135th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ludwig Diels ranks 603 out of 1,097Before him are Carl Chun, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Eduard Friedrich Poeppig, René Dubos, Jack Horner, and Heinrich von Kittlitz. After him are Richard Lydekker, Philip Henry Gosse, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, Fritz Schaudinn, Martin Rathke, and James Francis Stephens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Ludwig Diels ranks 147Before him are Iraj Mirza, Ernst Streeruwitz, Alfred Tysoe, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, Leonard Eugene Dickson, and Jerzy Żuławski. After him are Charles William Miller, Sténio Vincent, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Honus Wagner, Nikolai Semashko, and Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński. Among people deceased in 1945, Ludwig Diels ranks 261Before him are John R. Commons, Aleksey Krylov, János Garay, Wilhelm Hasse, Leonhard Kaupisch, and Berta Zuckerkandl. After him are Dobri Bozhilov, Hélène Berr, Pierre Cérésole, Xian Xinghai, Eugen Bolz, and Yu Dafu.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Diels ranks 4,093 out of 7,253Before him are Lisa Tetzner (1894), Uschi Glas (1944), Kurt Blome (1894), Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg (1776), Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680), and Ken Adam (1921). After him are Maximilian Harden (1861), Peter Joseph Lenné (1789), Walter Momper (1945), Irmgard Möller (1947), Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774), and Brigitte Hamann (1940).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Ludwig Diels ranks 135Before him are Jacob Sturm (1771), Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727), Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817), Erwin Stresemann (1889), Carl Chun (1852), and Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798). After him are Richard Goldschmidt (1878), Rolf Singer (1906), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852), Magnus Manske (1974), and Adam Lonicer (1528).