BIOLOGIST

Adam Afzelius

1750 - 1837

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Adam Afzelius (8 October 1750 – 20 January 1837) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Afzelius was born at Larv in Västergötland in 1750. He was appointed teacher of oriental languages at Uppsala University in 1777, and in 1785 demonstrator of botany. In 1793 he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Afzelius is the 178th most popular biologist (up from 203rd in 2019), the 163rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 233rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Adam Afzelius ranks 178 out of 1,097. Before him are John Ray, Norman Borlaug, Adolf Engler, George Robert Gray, Dmitri Ivanovsky, and Alexander Agassiz. After him are Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Carl Woese, Giovanni Sartori, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, and Charles Bonnet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, Adam Afzelius ranks 11. Before him are Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, Archduchess Maria Johanna Gabriela of Austria, Tipu Sultan, Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Heshen, and Francisco de Miranda. After him are Murad Bey, Sheikh Mansur, Karl August von Hardenberg, Ami Argand, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, and Henri Grégoire. Among people deceased in 1837, Adam Afzelius ranks 16. Before him are Giacomo Leopardi, Georg Büchner, François Gérard, Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, and Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Jean-François Le Sueur, Philippe Buonarroti, Duke Pius August in Bavaria, Ludwig Börne, 10th Dalai Lama, and Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Adam Afzelius ranks 163 out of 1,879. Before him are Sten Sture the Younger (1493), Claes Oldenburg (1929), Markus Persson (1979), Carl Johan Bernadotte (1916), Johan August Arfwedson (1792), and Rebecca Ferguson (1983). After him are Sigvard Bernadotte (1907), Harriet Andersson (1932), Margaret Leijonhufvud (1516), Loreen (1983), Sverker II of Sweden (1164), and Stefan Löfven (1957).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Adam Afzelius ranks 7. Before him are Carl Linnaeus (1707), Tomas Lindahl (1938), Hugo Theorell (1903), Svante Pääbo (1955), Elias Magnus Fries (1794), and Carl Peter Thunberg (1743). After him are Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Olaus Rudbeck (1630), Anders Sparrman (1748), Eva Ekeblad (1724), Jacob Georg Agardh (1813), and Erik Acharius (1757).

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