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Otto von Münchhausen

1716 - 1774

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Otto II. Freiherr von Münchhausen (11 June 1716 – 13 July 1774) was a German botanist. He was Chancellor of University of Göttingen and a correspondent of Linnaeus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto von Münchhausen has received more than 12,226 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Otto von Münchhausen is the 460th most popular biologist (up from 519th in 2019), the 3,398th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,279th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Otto von Münchhausen ranks 460 out of 841Before him are Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, Wilhelm Pfeffer, Edouard Van Beneden, Sabiha Kasimati, Carl Borivoj Presl, and Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás. After him are Gregory Winter, Jacob Georg Agardh, W. D. Hamilton, Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, and Jean Victoir Audouin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1716, Otto von Münchhausen ranks 15Before him are Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Antonio de Ulloa, Pehr Kalm, Yuan Mei, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, and Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton. After him are Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz, Capability Brown, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, Gaspar de Portolá, and George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville. Among people deceased in 1774, Otto von Münchhausen ranks 17Before him are Countess Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg, Johann Friedrich Agricola, Johan Peter Falk, and Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin. After him are Anna Morandi Manzolini, Henry Baker, and William Hewson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto von Münchhausen ranks 3,398 out of 6,142Before him are Nicole Brown Simpson (1959), Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (1932), Roland Matthes (1950), Gottfried August Homilius (1714), Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1633), and Dominic Monaghan (1976). After him are Jonas Kaufmann (1969), Franz Kaiser (1891), August Beer (1825), Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926), Ubbo Emmius (1547), and Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1859).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Otto von Münchhausen ranks 92Before him are Heinrich Kuhl (1797), Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776), Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1750), Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786), Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840), and Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845). After him are Jacob Sturm (1771), Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757), Jean Cabanis (1816), Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772), Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781), and Emilie Snethlage (1868).