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Adam Lonicer

1528 - 1586

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Adam Lonicer, Adam Lonitzer or Adamus Lonicerus (10 October 1528 – 29 May 1586) was a German botanist, noted for his 1557 revised version of Eucharius Rösslin's herbal. Lonicer was born in Marburg, the son of a theologian and philologist. He studied at Marburg and the University of Mainz, and obtained his Magister degree at sixteen years of age. He became professor of Mathematics at the University of Marburg in 1553 and Doctor of Medicine in 1554, becoming the city physician (Stadtphysikus) in Frankfurt am Main. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Lonicer is the 762nd most popular biologist (down from 629th in 2019), the 4,325th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,193rd in 2019) and the 158th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Adam Lonicer ranks 762 out of 1,097. Before him are Alexei Fedchenko, Garrett Hardin, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, John Hutchinson, Domenico Vandelli, and Bertha Lutz. After him are Tomitaro Makino, John Ellis, George Prideaux Robert Harris, Hwang Woo-suk, Wilhelm Weinberg, and Otto von Münchhausen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1528, Adam Lonicer ranks 23. Before him are Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, António Ferreira, Claude Le Jeune, Pedro da Fonseca, Benito Arias Montano, and Rémy Belleau.  Among people deceased in 1586, Adam Lonicer ranks 16. Before him are Birbal, Luis de Morales, Philip Sidney, Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt, Ignazio Danti, and Martín de Azpilcueta.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Adam Lonicer ranks 4,327 out of 7,253. Before him are Walter Kaufmann (1871), Heinrich Zimmer (1890), Ludwig Aschoff (1866), Manfred Eicher (1943), Wolfgang Kleff (1946), and Heinrich Kayser (1853). After him are Emil Rausch (1883), Max Dessoir (1867), Klaus Doldinger (1936), Ditmar Jakobs (1953), Gertrude of Brunswick (1060), and Georg Anton Friedrich Ast (1778).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Adam Lonicer ranks 158. Before him are Ernst Stromer (1871), Amalie Dietrich (1821), Hugo von Mohl (1805), Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (1816), Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804), and Erwin Stresemann (1889). After him are Wilhelm Weinberg (1862), Otto von Münchhausen (1716), Karl Moritz Schumann (1851), Karl Julius Perleb (1794), Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823), and Eduard von Martens (1831).

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