BIOLOGIST

Wilhelm Hofmeister

1824 - 1877

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Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister (18 May 1824 – 12 January 1877) was a German biologist and botanist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Hofmeister has received more than 66,816 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Wilhelm Hofmeister is the 522nd most popular biologist (up from 713th in 2019), the 3,710th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,185th in 2019) and the 112th most popular German Biologist.

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  • 67k

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  • 57.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 522 out of 1,097. Before him are Paul Gervais, Paul Nurse, Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Eugène Simon, Francisco Hernández de Toledo, and Arthur Cronquist. After him are Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Franz von Paula Schrank, Emil Racoviță, Patrick Manson, and Johann Friedrich Naumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 55. Before him are Emmanuel Frémiet, Antonio Ghislanzoni, Ambrose Burnside, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Juliusz Kossak, and Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz. After him are Víctor Balaguer i Cirera, Winfield Scott Hancock, Ōmura Masujirō, Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau. Among people deceased in 1877, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 41. Before him are Charles Wilkes, José de Alencar, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, Nikolay Ogarev, Nathaniel Palmer, and Errico Petrella. After him are Johann von Herbeck, Angelica Singleton Van Buren, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, Caroline Unger, Fernán Caballero, and Duke Eugen of Württemberg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 3,710 out of 7,253. Before him are Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790), John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1566), Reinhold Begas (1831), Ernst Lehner (1912), Gustav von Wangenheim (1895), and Virgil Solis (1514). After him are Otto Waalkes (1948), Charles August, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1685), Anni Albers (1899), Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1583), Marc Forster (1969), and Elizabeth Christ Trump (1880).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 112. Before him are Moritz Wagner (1813), Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845), Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772), Adolf Mayer (1843), Johann Julius Walbaum (1724), and Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757). After him are Franz von Paula Schrank (1747), Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780), Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1750), Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794), Basilius Besler (1561), and Albrecht Thaer (1752).

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