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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 62,673 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Nathaniel Wallich is the 818th most popular biologist (down from 677th in 2019), the 515th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 427th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Danish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nathaniel Wallich ranks 818 out of 841. Before him are John Abbot, Pierre Chambon, Ivan Lepyokhin, Colin Munro MacLeod, William John Swainson, and Robert H. MacArthur. After him are Angela Piskernik, Paul Henri Lecomte, Wilfred Hudson Osgood, William Roxburgh, Henry Baker, and Christian Friedrich Ecklon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Nathaniel Wallich ranks 54. Before him are Henry Bishop, José María Vargas, Rudolph Schadow, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Thomas Nuttall, and Louis McLane. After him are José María Queipo de Llano, 7th Count of Toreno, William L. Marcy, and Walter Forward. Among people deceased in 1854, Nathaniel Wallich ranks 55. Before him are Émile Souvestre, Edward Forbes, Pedro María de Anaya, Juan Mora Fernández, Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, and Robert Jameson. After him is Josipina Turnograjska.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Nathaniel Wallich ranks 515 out of 893. Before him are Michael Rasmussen (1974), Thomas Helveg (1971), Martin Jørgensen (1975), Flemming Povlsen (1966), Katy Bødtger (1932), and Joachim Trier (1974). After him are Katja K (1968), Charles Schlee (1873), Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795), Carsten Jensen (1952), John Sivebæk (1961), and Daniel Wass (1989).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among biologists born in Denmark, Nathaniel Wallich ranks 12. Before him are Eugenius Warming (1841), Emil Christian Hansen (1842), Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737), Johan Lange (1818), and Johannes Schmidt (1877). After him are Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795).

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