BIOLOGIST

Otto Stapf

1857 - 1933

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Otto Stapf FRS (23 April 1857 – 3 August 1933) was an Austrian born botanist and taxonomist, the son of Joseph Stapf, who worked in the Hallstatt salt-mines. He grew up in Hallstatt and later published about the archaeological plant remains from the Late Bronze- and Iron Age mines that had been uncovered by his father. Stapf studied botany in Vienna under Julius Wiesner, where he received his PhD with a dissertation on cristals and cristalloids in plants. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Stapf has received more than 30,188 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Stapf is the 739th most popular biologist (down from 677th in 2019), the 874th most popular biography from Austria (down from 785th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Austrian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Otto Stapf ranks 739 out of 1,097Before her are Théodore Monod, Alfred Moquin-Tandon, John Richardson, Marmaduke Tunstall, Johann Jacob Dillenius, and Rodolfo Amando Philippi. After her are Franz Steindachner, Miriam Rothschild, Johannes Thiele, John Anderson, Wilhelm Weinberg, and Auguste Duméril.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Otto Stapf ranks 113Before her are Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Constantin Coandă, Christian Wilhelm Allers, Milton S. Hershey, Friedrich Reinitzer, and E. A. Wallis Budge. After her are Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, Halil Pasha, Jules de Trooz, Clarence Darrow, Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, and František Ondříček. Among people deceased in 1933, Otto Stapf ranks 115Before her are János Hadik, Alfréd Haar, Alexander von Krobatin, Harriet Brooks, F. Holland Day, and Anita Rée. After her are Baltasar Brum, George Moore, Ludwig Schlesinger, Elizabeth Thompson, Archibald Sayce, and Jack Pickford.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Otto Stapf ranks 874 out of 1,424Before her are Leopold Hofmann (1905), Bibi Besch (1942), Robert Sara (1946), Christl Haas (1943), Marianne Hainisch (1839), and Christian Schwarz-Schilling (1930). After her are Fritzi Burger (1910), Felix Lichnowsky (1814), Johannes Hahn (1957), Franz Steindachner (1834), Trude Beiser (1927), and Mihály Pollack (1773).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Otto Stapf ranks 16Before her are Joy Adamson (1910), Franz Unger (1800), Josef August Schultes (1773), Johann Natterer (1787), Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727), and Richard Wettstein (1863). After her are Franz Steindachner (1834), Pál Kitaibel (1757), Joseph Rock (1884), Carl Eduard Hellmayr (1878), and Angelika Amon (1967).