BIOLOGIST

Rudolf Schlechter

1872 - 1925

Photo of Rudolf Schlechter

Icon of person Rudolf Schlechter

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 22,222 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Rudolf Schlechter is the 941st most popular biologist (down from 516th in 2019), the 5,270th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,569th in 2019) and the 188th most popular German Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 22k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Rudolf Schlechter ranks 941 out of 1,097. Before him are Aylmer Bourke Lambert, William Beebe, Johann Friedrich Adam, Joseph Barcroft, Thomas Pennant, and Lilian Gibbs. After him are William Murrill, Nigel Marven, Elizabeth F. Neufeld, Charles Walter De Vis, Ryuta Kawashima, and Nicole Marthe Le Douarin.

Most Popular Biologists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Rudolf Schlechter ranks 180. Before him are Octav Băncilă, William Desmond Taylor, Dimitrios Drivas, Anna Held, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, and Joseph Barcroft. After him are Sidney Olcott, James Young, Horace Rice, Siegfried Flesch, Harald Natvig, and Ľudmila Podjavorinská. Among people deceased in 1925, Rudolf Schlechter ranks 140. Before him are Wilhelmina Drucker, Willard Metcalf, Christy Mathewson, Amos Burn, Arvid Knöppel, and Lilian Gibbs. After him are Emilio Lunghi, Clarence Hudson White, Lucille Ricksen, Arthur Gardiner Butler, Francisco Guilledo, and Marguerite Marsh.

Others Born in 1872

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1925

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Schlechter ranks 5,270 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Schöne (1880), Sabine Moussier (1966), Peter Zadek (1926), Volker Strassen (1936), Rolf Danneberg (1953), and Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840). After him are Ewald Balser (1898), Johann Mühlegg (1970), Mady Rahl (1915), Michael Rensing (1984), Danna García (1978), and Björn Höcke (1972).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Rudolf Schlechter ranks 188. Before him are Jakob Emanuel Lange (1864), Johann August Ephraim Goeze (1731), Otto Bütschli (1848), Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (1825), George Engelmann (1809), and Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764). After him are Alexander Wendt (1958), Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller (1862), Tilly Edinger (1897), Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz (1834), Carl H. Eigenmann (1863), and Christian Drosten (1972).

German born Biologists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous