BIOLOGIST

Alexander Braun

1805 - 1877

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Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun (10 May 1805 – 29 March 1877) was a German botanist from Regensburg, Bavaria. His research centered on the morphology of plants and was a very influential teacher who worked as a professor of botany at the universities of Freiburg, Giessen, and Berlin at various times. He was also the director of the Berlin Botanical Garden. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Braun is the 415th most popular biologist (up from 417th in 2019), the 2,676th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,132nd in 2019) and the 78th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alexander Braun ranks 415 out of 1,097. Before him are Philibert Commerson, Achille Valenciennes, Pierre Magnol, Eugène Simon, Arthur Tansley, and John Needham. After him are Heinrich Boie, George Albert Boulenger, Carl Hagenbeck, Adolf Mayer, Martha Chase, and James P. Allison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Alexander Braun ranks 32. Before him are Princess Amalia of Sweden, Cochise, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, Joseph Škoda, and John O. Westwood. After him are Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Eugène Schneider, Mastoureh Ardalan, Louise Bertin, Prosper Guéranger, and Wilhelm von Kaulbach. Among people deceased in 1877, Alexander Braun ranks 31. Before him are Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Constantine Kanaris, Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Pōmare IV, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, and Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine. After him are Walter Bagehot, Alexandre Herculano, Angelica Singleton Van Buren, Louise Bertin, Johann Christian Poggendorff, and Charles Wilkes.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alexander Braun ranks 2,677 out of 7,253. Before him are Ulric Neisser (1928), Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1850), Gerhard Gentzen (1909), Martin Gottfried Weiss (1905), Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania (1580), and Fritz Busch (1890). After him are Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia (1714), Heinrich Boie (1794), Walter Ruttmann (1887), Claus Schilling (1871), Eric II, Duke of Pomerania (1418), and Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1737).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Alexander Braun ranks 78. Before him are Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), Theodor Boveri (1862), Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627), Karl Koch (1809), Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), and Georg August Goldfuss (1782). After him are Heinrich Boie (1794), Carl Hagenbeck (1844), Adolf Mayer (1843), Joseph Gaertner (1732), Blasius Merrem (1761), and Wilhelm Roux (1850).

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