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Anton Reichenow

1847 - 1941

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Anton Reichenow (1 August 1847 in Charlottenburg – 6 July 1941 in Hamburg) was a German ornithologist and herpetologist. Reichenow was the son-in-law of Jean Cabanis, and worked at the Natural History Museum of Berlin from 1874 to 1921. He was an expert on African birds, making a collecting expedition to West Africa in 1872 and 1873, and writing Die Vögel Afrikas (1900–05). He was also an expert on parrots, describing all species then known in his book Vogelbilder aus Fernen Zonen: Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der Papageien (illustrated by Gustav Mützel, 1839–1893). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Anton Reichenow is the 693rd most popular biologist (down from 313th in 2024), the 4,080th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,490th in 2019) and the 144th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Anton Reichenow ranks 693 out of 1,097. Before him are Alfred Romer, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, Basilius Besler, Alfred Sturtevant, Josef August Schultes, and Jean-Étienne Guettard. After him are Auguste Duméril, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, William Withering, Albert Bernhard Frank, Michael Sela, and Heinrich von Kittlitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1847, Anton Reichenow ranks 72. Before him are Chiquinha Gonzaga, Ray Lankester, Ellen Terry, Hiệp Hòa, Milovan Glišić, and Frederick Arthur Bridgman. After him are Cesare Arzelà, Michel-Joseph Maunoury, Koos de la Rey, Hermann Osthoff, William Edward Ayrton, and Marcel Alexandre Bertrand. Among people deceased in 1941, Anton Reichenow ranks 140. Before him are Charles Murray, Nazikeda Kadın, Yakov Smushkevich, Jin Shuren, Helen Morgan, and Leo Deutsch. After him are Chris Watson, Franciszek Kleeberg, Štefan Banič, Afife Jale, Hugo Strauß, and Louis Brandeis.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anton Reichenow ranks 4,082 out of 7,253. Before him are William II of Berg (1348), Peter von Hess (1792), Robert von Mohl (1799), Albert Ballin (1857), Carl Dahlhaus (1928), and Oda of Haldensleben (901). After him are Gottfried Fuchs (1889), Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1564), Princess Charlotte Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1731), Emmy Hennings (1885), Theodor von Heuglin (1824), and Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1824).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Anton Reichenow ranks 144. Before him are Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809), Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (1733), Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794), Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829), Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (1821), and Basilius Besler (1561). After him are Albert Bernhard Frank (1839), Conrad Moench (1744), Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792), Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808), Richard Goldschmidt (1878), and Johannes Baptista von Albertini (1769).

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