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Adolf Engler

1844 - 1930

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Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (25 March 1844 – 10 October 1930) was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (The Natural Plant Families), edited with Karl A. E. von Prantl. Even now, his system of plant classification, the Engler system, is still used by many herbaria and is followed by writers of many manuals and floras. It is still the only system that treats all 'plants' (in the wider sense, algae to flowering plants) in such depth. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Engler is the 174th most popular biologist (down from 152nd in 2019), the 234th most popular biography from Poland (up from 243rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Polish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Adolf Engler ranks 174 out of 1,097. Before him are Leland H. Hartwell, William Bateson, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Joseph Dalton Hooker, John Ray, and Norman Borlaug. After him are George Robert Gray, Dmitri Ivanovsky, Alexander Agassiz, Adam Afzelius, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, and Ludwig von Bertalanffy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Adolf Engler ranks 27. Before him are Ismail Qemali, Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Muhammad Ahmad, Charles-Marie Widor, Abdur Rahman Khan, and Julius Wellhausen. After him are Charles-Émile Reynaud, Friedrich Miescher, Sophia Tolstaya, Henry J. Heinz, Karl Lueger, and George W. De Long. Among people deceased in 1930, Adolf Engler ranks 28. Before him are Arthur Balfour, Siegfried Wagner, Prince Leopold of Bavaria, Ahmad Shah Qajar, Sakichi Toyoda, and Adolf von Harnack. After him are Jules Pascin, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, Leopold Auer, Luigi Facta, Waldemar Haffkine, and Otto Mueller.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Adolf Engler ranks 234 out of 1,694. Before him are Anna von Schweidnitz (1339), Henryk Górecki (1933), Przemysł II (1257), Wanda Landowska (1879), Robert Luther (1822), and Ernst Toller (1893). After him are Udo Lattek (1935), Wacław Sierpiński (1882), Bolesław Prus (1847), Emil Ludwig (1881), B. Traven (1882), and Władysław II the Exile (1105).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Poland

Among biologists born in Poland, Adolf Engler ranks 4. Before him are Günter Blobel (1936), Georg Forster (1754), and Ferdinand Cohn (1828). After him are C. L. Gloger (1803), Johann Reinhold Forster (1729), Julius von Sachs (1832), Johannes Thiele (1860), Martin Rathke (1793), Władysław Taczanowski (1819), Gustav Radde (1831), and Michael Sela (1924).

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