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 48,847 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Wilhelm Hofmeister is the 570th most popular biologist (up from 588th in 2019), the 3,426th most popular biography from Germany (down from 680th in 2019) and the 125th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 570 out of 844. Before him are Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau, N. E. Brown, Robert Swinhoe, Warwick Estevam Kerr, Jan Frederik Gronovius, and Gabriel Bibron. After him are Johannes Müller Argoviensis, Alfred Grandidier, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Everard Home, Amotz Zahavi, and Ruth Arnon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 52. Before him are Ambrose Burnside, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Emmanuel Frémiet, Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Woldemar, Prince of Lippe, and Juliusz Kossak. After him are Winfield Scott Hancock, Alexey Bogolyubov, Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz, Martin Gropius, and Hieronymous Theodor Richter. Among people deceased in 1877, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 47. Before him are Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Nathaniel Palmer, Jung Bahadur Rana, Angelica Singleton Van Buren, Charles Wilkes, and Robert Swinhoe. After him are Georg Adolf Erman, Alexander Brullov, Edward Belcher, Louise Bertin, Ramón Cabrera, 1st Duke of Maestrazgo, and Juan Bautista Gill.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 3,426 out of 5,289. Before him are Wilhelm Kühne (1837), Paul Deussen (1845), Hermann Lang (1909), Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein (1967), James Krüss (1926), and Paul Kummer (1834). After him are Rüdiger Safranski (1945), Jeri Ryan (1968), Herman Rarebell (1949), Werner Goldberg (1919), Gustav Hartlaub (1814), and Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (1682).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 125. Before him are Eduard August von Regel (1815), Jean Cabanis (1816), Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774), Johann Julius Walbaum (1724), Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (1733), and Ernst Ahl (1898). After him are Heinrich Boie (1794), Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804), Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780), Ole Borch (1626), Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792), and Hermann Harms (1870).

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