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Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers

1816 - 1853

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Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (26 December 1816 in Mühlhausen – 18 June 1853 in Berlin) was a German botanist. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Walp. when citing a botanical name.He received his education at the Universities of Greifswald and Breslau, earning his habilitation in 1848 at Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers has received more than 19,152 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers is the 790th most popular biologist (down from 715th in 2019), the 4,393rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,850th in 2019) and the 156th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers ranks 790 out of 841Before him are Charles Conrad Abbott, Judah Folkman, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky, Herbert Giles, Alexander Wilson, and Spencer Fullerton Baird. After him are Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, André Marie Constant Duméril, Jan Sztolcman, Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov, John Lawrence LeConte, and Karl Alfred von Zittel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers ranks 49Before him are Grace Aguilar, Paul Gervais, Stephen Allen Benson, C. A. Rosetti, William Sterndale Bennett, and Lajos Haynald. After him are Johan Sverdrup, George Henry Thomas, Priscilla Cooper Tyler, Morrison Waite, Elihu B. Washburne, and Nathaniel P. Banks. Among people deceased in 1853, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers ranks 51Before him are Lucas Alamán, Andrés Narvarte, Hugh Edwin Strickland, Josef Ludwig von Armansperg, Manuel María Lombardini, and Tommaso Grossi. After him is Charles James Napier.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers ranks 4,393 out of 6,142Before him are Monika Zehrt (1952), Wilhelm Killing (1847), Elisabeth Langgässer (1899), Ludwig Ganghofer (1855), Henriette Reker (1956), and Markus Rühl (1972). After him are Franz Xaver Kroetz (1946), Rainer Ludwig Claisen (1851), Rudolph Dirks (1877), Christopher Franke (1953), Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin (1943), and Nick Menza (1964).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers ranks 156Before him are Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805), Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808), Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798), Amalie Dietrich (1821), Wilhelm Weinberg (1862), and Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus (1835). After him are Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839), August W. Eichler (1839), Max Fürbringer (1846), Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727), Erwin Stresemann (1889), and Blasius Merrem (1761).