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August Batsch

1761 - 1802

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August Johann Georg Karl Batsch (28 October 1761 – 29 September 1802) was a German naturalist. He was a recognised authority on mushrooms, and also described new species of ferns, bryophytes, and seed plants. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. August Batsch is the 372nd most popular biologist (up from 395th in 2019), the 2,432nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,994th in 2019) and the 69th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, August Batsch ranks 372 out of 1,097Before him are Jean René Constant Quoy, Olof Swartz, Joel Asaph Allen, Charles Plumier, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, and Otto Kuntze. After him are David Douglas, Georg Joseph Kamel, Frank Chapman, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Nikolai Severtzov, and John Maynard Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, August Batsch ranks 22Before him are Louis-Léopold Boilly, Antoine Barnave, Marguerite Gérard, Marie Harel, Jean-Louis Pons, and John Moore. After him are Marie-Gabrielle Capet, Blasius Merrem, François Hanriot, Antonín Vranický, Jacob Hübner, and Gian Domenico Romagnosi. Among people deceased in 1802, August Batsch ranks 18Before him are Franz Aepinus, Jens Juel, Jurij Vega, Prince Henry of Prussia, Giuseppe Sarti, and María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba. After him are George Romney, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Joseph Duplessis, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, Joseph Ducreux, and Thomas Girtin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Batsch ranks 2,433 out of 7,253Before him are Uri Avnery (1923), Johann Theodor of Bavaria (1703), Maria Aurora von Königsmarck (1662), Fred Uhlman (1901), Honoratus (365), and Ernst Chladni (1756). After him are Carl Ludwig Siegel (1896), Sebastian Haffner (1907), Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1757), William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1598), Walter Eucken (1891), and William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1629).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, August Batsch ranks 69Before him are Friedrich Boie (1789), Moritz Wagner (1813), Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Friedrich Loeffler (1852), Fritz Müller (1822), and Otto Kuntze (1843). After him are Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743), Johann Georg Wagler (1800), Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), Theodor Boveri (1862), Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627), and Karl Koch (1809).