BIOLOGIST

Nathaniel Wallich

1786 - 1854

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Nathaniel Wolff Wallich (28 January 1786 – 28 April 1854) was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India, initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later for the Danish East India Company and the British East India Company. He was involved in the early development of the Calcutta Botanical Garden, describing many new plant species and developing a large herbarium collection which was distributed to collections in Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nathaniel Wallich has received more than 70,407 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Nathaniel Wallich is the 730th most popular biologist (up from 817th in 2019), the 483rd most popular biography from Denmark (up from 512th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Danish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nathaniel Wallich ranks 730 out of 1,097. Before him are Karl Patterson Schmidt, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Émile Oustalet, Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz, Émil Goeldi, and James L. Peters. After him are Karl Julius Perleb, John Belchier, Théodore Monod, Alfred Moquin-Tandon, John Richardson, and Marmaduke Tunstall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Nathaniel Wallich ranks 55. Before him are Auguste de Montferrand, Louis Vicat, Moshoeshoe I, Pavel Schilling, Rudolph Schadow, and Henry Bishop. After him are Louis McLane, Thomas Nuttall, William L. Marcy, José María Queipo de Llano, 7th Count of Toreno, and Walter Forward. Among people deceased in 1854, Nathaniel Wallich ranks 60. Before him are Prince Carl Oscar, Duke of Södermanland, Pedro María de Anaya, Frederick Catherwood, Philip Barker-Webb, Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, and Émile Souvestre. After him are Robert Jameson, Juan Mora Fernández, Josipina Turnograjska, Gabriele Rossetti, Justo Figuerola, and George Cathcart.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Nathaniel Wallich ranks 483 out of 1,032. Before him are Karen Hoff (1921), Henrik Nordbrandt (1945), Frans Blom (1893), Katja K (1968), Ulla Pia (1945), and Hannibal Sehested (1842). After him are Niels Neergaard (1854), Willy Hansen (1906), Jens Galschiøt (1954), Icel of Mercia (501), Jonas Vingegaard (1996), and Ada Adler (1878).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among biologists born in Denmark, Nathaniel Wallich ranks 11. Before him are Erik Pontoppidan (1698), Christen C. Raunkiær (1860), Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Eugenius Warming (1841), Emil Christian Hansen (1842), and Japetus Steenstrup (1813). After him are Johannes Schmidt (1877), Johan Lange (1818), and Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795).

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