BIOLOGIST

Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur

1799 - 1878

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Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (February 18, 1799 – May 27, 1878) was a German-Austrian pharmacist and botanist born in Königsberg. He obtained his education in Königsberg and Berlin, later serving as a director of a chemical factory in Liesing (Vienna). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur has received more than 7,990 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur is the 523rd most popular biologist (up from 528th in 2019), the 1,340th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,358th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Russian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur ranks 523 out of 1,097. Before him are Paul Nurse, Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Eugène Simon, Francisco Hernández de Toledo, Arthur Cronquist, and Wilhelm Hofmeister. After him are Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Franz von Paula Schrank, Emil Racoviță, Patrick Manson, Johann Friedrich Naumann, and Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur ranks 38. Before him are Petrache Poenaru, Robert von Mohl, Tanaka Hisashige, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Alexander Petrov, and Nathaniel Palmer. After him are Manuel Bulnes, Joachim Barrande, Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, Heinrich von Kittlitz, Imre Frivaldszky, and David Don. Among people deceased in 1878, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur ranks 42. Before him are Temistocle Solera, Andreas von Ettingshausen, Anna Sewell, George Cruikshank, Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, and Crawford Long. After him are Josip Runjanin, Eugène Belgrand, August Heinrich Petermann, Dimitrios Voulgaris, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, and Pyotr Vyazemsky.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur ranks 1,340 out of 3,761. Before him are Albert Shesternyov (1941), Aleksandr Deyneka (1899), Katarzyna Kobro (1898), Nadezhda Chizhova (1945), Aleksey Pisemsky (1821), and Dmitry Laptev (1701). After him are Nur Devlet (null), Ivan Shuvalov (1727), Boris Yegorov (1937), Lev Artsimovich (1909), Natalya Gorbanevskaya (1936), and Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur ranks 15. Before him are Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Kliment Timiryazev (1843), Dmitry Belyayev (1917), and Edwin Klebs (1834). After him are Franz Meyen (1804), Fritz Schaudinn (1871), Nikolay Drozdov (1937), Alexei Fedchenko (1844), David Keilin (1887), and Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (1869).

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