BIOLOGIST

Moritz Wagner

1813 - 1887

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Moritz Wagner (Bayreuth, 3 October 1813 – Munich, 31 May 1887) was a German explorer, collector, geographer and natural historian. Wagner devoted three years (1836–1839) to the exploration of Algiers: it was here that he made important observations in natural history, which he later supplemented and developed: that geographical isolation could play a key role in speciation. From 1852 to 1855, together with Carl Scherzer, Wagner travelled through North and Central America and the Caribbean. In May 1843, Wagner toured the Lake Sevan region of Armenia with Armenian writer Khachatur Abovian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moritz Wagner has received more than 39,170 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Moritz Wagner is the 494th most popular biologist (down from 390th in 2019), the 3,583rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,974th in 2019) and the 106th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Moritz Wagner ranks 494 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Bertha Lutz, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Johann Georg Wagler, Ardem Patapoutian, and Elmer Drew Merrill. After him are Wilhelm Pfeffer, Charles De Geer, George Prideaux Robert Harris, Jules Émile Planchon, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, and Francis Collins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Moritz Wagner ranks 47. Before him are Charles Blanc, Jacob Georg Agardh, Antonio García Gutiérrez, Stephen Heller, József Eötvös, and Ludwig Leichhardt. After him are Nikolay Ogarev, Frederick Scott Archer, Errico Petrella, John C. Frémont, Prince August of Württemberg, and Stephen A. Douglas. Among people deceased in 1887, Moritz Wagner ranks 35. Before him are Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein, Louis Gallait, Ditlev Gothard Monrad, Otto Lesser, Lysander Spooner, and August von Werder. After him are Peter Jan Beckx, Mohamed Sherif Pasha, Emma Lazarus, Lorenzo Batlle y Grau, Alvan Clark, and Friedrich Theodor Vischer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Moritz Wagner ranks 3,583 out of 7,253. Before him are Jurij Brězan (1916), Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler (1811), Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1704), Wilfried Dietrich (1933), Kurt Aland (1915), and Justus Jonas (1493). After him are Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1866), Gerald Götting (1923), Ilse Steppat (1917), Christian Schad (1894), Franz Kaiser (1891), and Karl Muck (1859).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Moritz Wagner ranks 106. Before him are Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809), Karl Gegenbaur (1826), Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), Archibald Reiss (1875), Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840), and Johann Georg Wagler (1800). After him are Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845), Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772), Adolf Mayer (1843), Johann Julius Walbaum (1724), Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757), and Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824).

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