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BIOLOGIST

Otto Wilhelm Thomé

1840 - 1925

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Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840–1925) was a German botanist and botanical artist from Cologne, best known for his compendium of botanical illustrations Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz in Wort und Bild für Schule und Haus (Flora of Germany, Austria and Switzerland in Word and Picture for School and Home), the first of 4 volumes with a total of 572 botanical illustrations, published in 1885 in Gera, Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Wilhelm Thomé has received more than 39,231 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Wilhelm Thomé is the 449th most popular biologist (down from 380th in 2019), the 3,345th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,719th in 2019) and the 90th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Otto Wilhelm Thomé ranks 449 out of 841Before him are Jean René Constant Quoy, Leopold Fitzinger, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, and Carl Friedrich von Ledebour. After him are Jeanne Villepreux-Power, Georg Joseph Kamel, Pierre Magnol, Esther Lederberg, Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, and Wilhelm Pfeffer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Otto Wilhelm Thomé ranks 53Before him are Friedrich Kohlrausch, Edmond Audran, Titu Maiorescu, Dmitry Pisarev, Yaa Asantewaa, and Francišak Bahuševič. After him are William Graham Sumner, Alexander Kovalevsky, Charles Warren, Abraham Goldfaden, Chief Joseph, and Viktor Knorre. Among people deceased in 1925, Otto Wilhelm Thomé ranks 95Before him are Hugo Preuß, Alexander Miasnikian, Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg, Surendranath Banerjee, Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, and Nelson A. Miles. After him are Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin, Magnus Enckell, Fanny Bullock Workman, Giovanni Battista Grassi, George Bellows, and Rudolf Schlechter.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Wilhelm Thomé ranks 3,345 out of 6,142Before him are Adolf Merckle (1934), John I, Count Palatine of Simmern (1459), Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786), Edgar Jung (1894), Willigis (940), and Erich Pommer (1889). After him are Wolfgang Becker (1954), Carl Adam Petri (1926), Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (1783), Cem Özdemir (1965), Barthel Beham (1502), and Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (1701).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Otto Wilhelm Thomé ranks 90Before him are Oscar Hertwig (1849), Karl Gegenbaur (1826), Heinrich Kuhl (1797), Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1750), and Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786). After him are Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845), Otto von Münchhausen (1716), Jacob Sturm (1771), Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757), Jean Cabanis (1816), and Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772).