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 38,803 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Otto Wilhelm Thomé is the 487th most popular biologist (down from 448th in 2019), the 3,538th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,342nd in 2019) and the 104th most popular German Biologist.

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Over the past year Otto Wilhelm Thomé has had the most page views in the with 5,752 views, followed by Russian (4,024), and Spanish (2,490). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (14,700.00%), Arabic (57.04%), and Tagalog (43.46%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Otto Wilhelm Thomé ranks 487 out of 1,097. Before him are Johan Peter Falk, Benedykt Dybowski, Archibald Reiss, Heinz Christian Pander, Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, and Joseph Franz von Jacquin. After him are Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Bertha Lutz, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Johann Georg Wagler, Ardem Patapoutian, and Elmer Drew Merrill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Otto Wilhelm Thomé ranks 56. Before him are Abraham Goldfaden, Titu Maiorescu, Helena Modjeska, Francišak Bahuševič, Alexander Kovalevsky, and Hermann Goetz. After him are Émile Lemoine, Marko Kropyvnytskyi, Victorino de la Plaza, Angelo de Gubernatis, Charles Warren, and Lars Fredrik Nilson. Among people deceased in 1925, Otto Wilhelm Thomé ranks 92. Before him are Roger de La Fresnaye, André Caplet, Magnus Enckell, Leo Fall, Fanny Bullock Workman, and Carl Neumann. After him are Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, Giovanni Battista Grassi, J. M. E. McTaggart, Alfred Perot, Ephraim Moses Lilien, and Günther Victor, Prince of Schwarzburg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Wilhelm Thomé ranks 3,538 out of 7,253. Before him are Sophie von La Roche (1730), Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1769), Ubbo Emmius (1547), Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1846), Josef Frings (1887), and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen (1843). After him are Susanne Klatten (1962), Hans von Koessler (1853), Princess Amelia of Great Britain (1711), Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1943), Karl Koller (1898), and Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe (1723).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Otto Wilhelm Thomé ranks 104. Before him are Carl Ludwig Koch (1778), Jacques Loeb (1859), Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809), Karl Gegenbaur (1826), Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), and Archibald Reiss (1875). After him are Johann Georg Wagler (1800), Moritz Wagner (1813), Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845), Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772), Adolf Mayer (1843), and Johann Julius Walbaum (1724).

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