1834 - 1917
Petter Adolf Karsten (16 February 1834 – 22 March 1917) was a Finnish mycologist, the foremost expert on the fungi of Finland in his day, and known in consequence as the "father of Finnish mycology". Karsten was born in Merimasku near Turku, studied at the University of Helsinki, and then moved to the inland of Tammela, where he spent most of his life with teaching botany and doing research at the Mustiala Agriculture Institute (now the Faculty of Agriculture of the HAMK University of Applied Sciences). He amassed a vast collection, both by his own efforts and those of his correspondents, and named about 200 new genera and 2,000 new species. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Petter Adolf Karsten has received more than 19,058 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Petter Adolf Karsten is the 476th most popular biologist (up from 504th in 2019), the 148th most popular biography from Finland (up from 155th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Finnish Biologist.
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Among biologists, Petter Adolf Karsten ranks 476 out of 841. Before him are Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Joseph Paul Gaimard, Craig Mello, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, and Garrett Hardin. After him are Bertha Lutz, René Dubos, Sébastien Vaillant, George Clifford III, Achille Valenciennes, and Jean Cabanis.
1757 - 1834
HPI: 50.07
Rank: 470
1776 - 1854
HPI: 50.06
Rank: 471
1793 - 1858
HPI: 50.05
Rank: 472
1960 - Present
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 473
1752 - 1804
HPI: 50.01
Rank: 474
1915 - 2003
HPI: 50.00
Rank: 475
1834 - 1917
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 476
1894 - 1976
HPI: 49.95
Rank: 477
1901 - 1982
HPI: 49.95
Rank: 478
1669 - 1722
HPI: 49.95
Rank: 479
1685 - 1760
HPI: 49.92
Rank: 480
1794 - 1865
HPI: 49.92
Rank: 481
1816 - 1906
HPI: 49.89
Rank: 482
Among people born in 1834, Petter Adolf Karsten ranks 54. Before him are Piet Joubert, Miguel Grau Seminario, Paul Kummer, Adolph Frank, Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, and Albert Niemann. After him are Georg Hermann Quincke, Peter Benoit, Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Julius Reubke, John Gilbert Baker, and Paul Friedrich August Ascherson. Among people deceased in 1917, Petter Adolf Karsten ranks 71. Before him are Marian Smoluchowski, Judith Gautier, Ber Borochov, Federico Zandomeneghi, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, and Frances Xavier Cabrini. After him are Otto Finsch, Ivan Aguéli, Frank Muller, Friedrich Robert Helmert, William Knox D'Arcy, and Aurel Popovici.
1834 - 1900
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 48
1834 - 1879
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 49
1834 - 1912
HPI: 50.74
Rank: 50
1834 - 1916
HPI: 50.55
Rank: 51
1834 - 1870
HPI: 50.50
Rank: 52
1834 - 1861
HPI: 50.38
Rank: 53
1834 - 1917
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 54
1834 - 1924
HPI: 49.84
Rank: 55
1834 - 1901
HPI: 49.78
Rank: 56
1834 - 1911
HPI: 49.38
Rank: 57
1834 - 1858
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 58
1834 - 1920
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 59
1834 - 1913
HPI: 48.82
Rank: 60
1872 - 1917
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 65
1845 - 1917
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 66
1881 - 1917
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 67
1841 - 1917
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 68
1841 - 1917
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 69
1850 - 1917
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 70
1834 - 1917
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 71
1839 - 1917
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 72
1869 - 1917
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 73
1862 - 1917
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 74
1843 - 1917
HPI: 49.13
Rank: 75
1849 - 1917
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 76
1863 - 1917
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 77
Among people born in Finland, Petter Adolf Karsten ranks 148 out of 642. Before him are Leo Kinnunen (1943), Hertta Kuusinen (1904), Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (1870), Veikko Kankkonen (1940), Anneli Jäätteenmäki (1955), and Tuomas Holopainen (1976). After him are Magnus Enckell (1870), Juha Sipilä (1961), Harald Öhquist (1891), Gustaf Molander (1888), Janne Ahonen (1977), and Paavo Berglund (1929).
1943 - 2017
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 142
1904 - 1974
HPI: 50.20
Rank: 143
1870 - 1946
HPI: 50.16
Rank: 144
1940 - Present
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 145
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 146
1976 - Present
HPI: 50.01
Rank: 147
1834 - 1917
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 148
1870 - 1925
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 149
1961 - Present
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 150
1891 - 1971
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 151
1888 - 1973
HPI: 49.86
Rank: 152
1977 - Present
HPI: 49.83
Rank: 153
1929 - 2012
HPI: 49.82
Rank: 154
Among biologists born in Finland, Petter Adolf Karsten ranks 3. Before him are Peter Forsskål (1732) and Alexander von Nordmann (1803). After him are Christian von Steven (1781).
1732 - 1763
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 1
1803 - 1866
HPI: 53.04
Rank: 2
1834 - 1917
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 3
1781 - 1863
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 4