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BIOLOGIST

Petter Adolf Karsten

1834 - 1917

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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

Among biologists, Petter Adolf Karsten ranks 476 out of 841Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Petter Adolf Karsten ranks 54Before 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 71Before 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.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Petter Adolf Karsten ranks 148 out of 642Before 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).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Finland

Among biologists born in Finland, Petter Adolf Karsten ranks 3Before him are Peter Forsskål (1732) and Alexander von Nordmann (1803). After him are Christian von Steven (1781).