BIOLOGIST

Albert Günther

1830 - 1914

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Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther , also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist (after George Albert Boulenger) with more than 340 reptile species described and the third-most productive fish taxonomist with about 1600 fish species described. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Günther is the 234th most popular biologist (up from 307th in 2019), the 1,536th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,441st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Albert Günther ranks 234 out of 1,097. Before him are John James Audubon, Othenio Abel, Anders Sparrman, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Ana Aslan, and Peter Forsskål. After him are Stephen Jay Gould, Theodor Escherich, Rudolf Vrba, J. B. S. Haldane, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, and Thomas Browne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1830, Albert Günther ranks 21. Before him are Hans von Bülow, Louise Michel, Princess Eugénie of Sweden, Élisée Reclus, Étienne-Jules Marey, and Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Karl Goldmark, Oliver Otis Howard, Jules de Goncourt, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, and Lalla Fatma N'Soumer. Among people deceased in 1914, Albert Günther ranks 34. Before him are Alfred Thayer Mahan, Anatoly Lyadov, Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Georges Picquart, Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Joseph Swan. After him are Theodor Kittelsen, George Speck, Christian Morgenstern, Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, Jurji Zaydan, and George William Hill.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albert Günther ranks 1,536 out of 7,253. Before him are Tarkan (1972), Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1654), Sebastian Kneipp (1821), Fabian von Schlabrendorff (1907), Karl Richter (1926), and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884). After him are Karl August von Hardenberg (1750), Douglas Sirk (1897), Walther Gerlach (1889), Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal (1861), and Alice Weidel (1979).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Albert Günther ranks 32. Before him are Ludwig Reichenbach (1793), Hans Driesch (1867), Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), Bert Sakmann (1942), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), and August Grisebach (1814). After him are Theodor Escherich (1857), Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802), Carl Correns (1864), Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (1750), and Johann Baptist von Spix (1781).

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