BIOLOGIST

Wilhelm Philippe Schimper

1808 - 1880

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Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (January 12, 1808 – March 20, 1880, in Lichtenberg) was an Alsatian botanist with French, later German citizenship. He was born in Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel, but spent his youth in Offwiller, a village at the foot of the Vosges mountain range in Alsace. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilhelm Philippe Schimper has received more than 18,573 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Philippe Schimper is the 914th most popular biologist, the 4,891st most popular biography from France and the 125th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper ranks 914 out of 1,097. Before him are Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Ann Bishop, Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, G. Ledyard Stebbins, Nikolai Turczaninow, and Jan-Just Bos. After him are Mark Catesby, Jon E. Ahlquist, Edward Newton, George Engelmann, William Sherard, and Johan Lange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper ranks 66. Before him are José Rufino Echenique, Antonio Arenas, José María Urvina, José María Linares, Agustín Morales, and Hamilton Fish. After him are Wendela Hebbe, Hugh Falconer, Teréz Karacs, John Hutton Balfour, Juan Crisóstomo Torrico, and Caroline Norton. Among people deceased in 1880, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper ranks 64. Before him are José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, Christian August Friedrich Peters, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Thomas Bell, José Ignacio de Márquez, and Manuel Murillo Toro. After him are Manolache Costache Epureanu, José Ruperto Monagas, Lydia Maria Child, Nell Arthur, James Seddon, and Achille Guenée.

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In France

Among people born in France, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper ranks 4,891 out of 6,770. Before him are Maurice Vignerot (1879), Dominique Bathenay (1954), Pierre Bosquet (1810), Zabou Breitman (1959), Florian Thauvin (1993), and Pierre Adam (1924). After him are Roger Apéry (1916), Raphaël Poirée (1974), Chantal Chaudé de Silans (1919), Hubert Curien (1924), Marcel Pinel (1908), and Jacques Cariou (1870).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Wilhelm Philippe Schimper ranks 125. Before him are Jules Pierre Rambur (1801), Paul Henri Lecomte (1856), Palisot de Beauvois (1752), Édouard Ménétries (1802), Pierre Chambon (1931), and Charles Frédéric Girard (1822). After him are Elizabeth F. Neufeld (1928), Nicole Marthe Le Douarin (1930), François Gagnepain (1866), Édouard Louis Trouessart (1842), Aimée Antoinette Camus (1879), and Stanislas Dehaene (1965).

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