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BIOLOGIST

Rudolf Schlechter

1872 - 1925

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Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (16 October 1872 – 16 November 1925) was a German taxonomist, botanist, and author of several works on orchids. He went on botanical expeditions in Africa, Indonesia, New Guinea, South and Central America and Australia. His vast herbarium was destroyed during the bombing of Berlin in 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolf Schlechter has received more than 19,055 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Schlechter is the 517th most popular biologist (down from 475th in 2019), the 3,577th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,127th in 2019) and the 106th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Rudolf Schlechter ranks 517 out of 841Before him are Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Charles David Keeling, Heinrich Schrader, Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, David Starr Jordan, and Johan Ernst Gunnerus. After him are George Albert Boulenger, Emil Racoviță, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Eduard August von Regel, George Robert Waterhouse, and Carl Ludwig Koch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Rudolf Schlechter ranks 106Before him are Henry Bataille, Kazimierz Bein, Lorenzo Perosi, Georgios Tsitas, Johan Pitka, and Paul Reinecke. After him are Paul Fort, Jaan Teemant, Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Juho Vennola, Iwan Bloch, and Johan Bojer. Among people deceased in 1925, Rudolf Schlechter ranks 101Before him are Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin, Magnus Enckell, Fanny Bullock Workman, Giovanni Battista Grassi, and George Bellows. After him are Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics, Félix Sesúmaga, Arkady Averchenko, Alfred Perot, Jules Méline, and Richard Teichmann.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Schlechter ranks 3,577 out of 6,142Before him are Franz Xaver Gabelsberger (1789), Heinrich Zimmer (1890), Cosmas Damian Asam (1686), Edgar Hilsenrath (1926), Nicolaus von Amsdorf (1483), and Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1585). After him are Ernst Lehner (1912), Markus Merk (1962), James Krüss (1926), Felix Brych (1975), Paul Josef Cordes (1934), and Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Rudolf Schlechter ranks 106Before him are Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809), Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782), Alwin Berger (1871), Hugo von Mohl (1805), Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817), and Heinrich Schrader (1767). After him are Eduard August von Regel (1815), Carl Ludwig Koch (1778), Adam Lonicer (1528), Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852), Ludwig Diels (1874), and Jacques Loeb (1859).