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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 61,727 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Hofmeister is the 714th most popular biologist (down from 570th in 2019), the 4,198th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,425th in 2019) and the 139th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 714 out of 841Before him are Daniel Giraud Elliot, Casimir de Candolle, Johannes Schmidt, Karl Patterson Schmidt, David Keilin, and Anton Reichenow. After him are Ray Lankester, Francisco Manuel Blanco, William Townsend Aiton, François Marie Daudin, Ernst Ahl, and Mary F. Lyon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 65Before him are Alexey Bogolyubov, Charles Blondin, Martin Gropius, Joseph Hergenröther, Hieronymous Theodor Richter, and Franz Sigel. After him are Theodor von Heuglin, Victoire Léodile Béra, Francesco Brioschi, Antonio Aguilar y Correa, Marquis of Vega de Armijo, Calvert Vaux, and Edmund Kirby Smith. Among people deceased in 1877, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 58Before him are Louise Bertin, Errico Petrella, Alexander Brullov, Karel Sabina, Rómulo Díaz de la Vega, and Juan Bautista Gill. After him are Federico Errázuriz Zañartu and Elizabeth F. Ellet.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 4,198 out of 6,142Before him are Duchess Gustave Caroline of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1694), E. Marlitt (1825), Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg (1839), Philipp Plein (1978), Nikolaus Pevsner (1902), and Anton Reichenow (1847). After him are Helmut Dietl (1944), Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia (1976), Kai Havertz (1999), Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786), Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg (1714), and Ernst Ahl (1898).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 139Before him are Nicolaus Michael Oppel (1782), Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829), Carl Chun (1852), Johannes Baptista von Albertini (1769), Friedrich Boie (1789), and Anton Reichenow (1847). After him are Ernst Ahl (1898), August Batsch (1761), Karl Hugo Strunz (1910), Johann Christoph Wendland (1755), Jakob Emanuel Lange (1864), and Karl Moritz Schumann (1851).