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August von Pelzeln

1825 - 1891

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August von Pelzeln (10 May 1825, Prague – 2 September 1891 in Oberdöbling) was an Austrian ornithologist. He was a grandson to novelist Karoline Pichler (1769-1843). He studied at the University of Vienna, later working as an assistant under helminthologist Karl Moriz Diesing (1800-1867) in the Hof-Naturalien-Cabinet (from 1851). In 1857 he acquired curatorial duties formerly held by Johann Jakob Heckel (1790-1857), and subsequently became in charge of the bird (1857) and mammal (1869) collections. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. August von Pelzeln is the 636th most popular biologist (up from 688th in 2019), the 487th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 582nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Czech Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, August von Pelzeln ranks 636 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Charles Horton Peck, Joseph Rock, Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman, John Richardson, and Philip Barker-Webb. After him are Roberto de Visiani, Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, William John Burchell, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Nils Johan Andersson, and Johan Peter Falk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1825, August von Pelzeln ranks 61. Before him are Aníbal Pinto, August Beer, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, Domenico Agostini, Giuseppe Prinzi, and Francesco Faà di Bruno. After him are Mårten Eskil Winge, Emil Welti, Karl Doppler, Domingo Santa María, Rafael Núñez, and Pashko Vasa. Among people deceased in 1891, August von Pelzeln ranks 81. Before him are Antero de Quental, Joseph Leidy, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, James Russell Lowell, Domenico Agostini, and Staka Skenderova. After him are Antonio Ciseri, Princess Ida of Schaumburg-Lippe, Lajos Haynald, Barbara Bodichon, Pierre de Decker, and Ahmed Vefik Pasha.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, August von Pelzeln ranks 487 out of 1,200. Before him are Olga Fikotová (1932), Eduard Čech (1893), Jiří Dienstbier (1937), Vojtěch Jasný (1925), František Vláčil (1924), and Miroslav Ondříček (1934). After him are Tadeáš Hájek (1525), Hana Mandlíková (1962), Jiří Wolker (1900), Joseph Johann von Littrow (1781), Vlastimil Bubník (1931), and Vladimír Šmicer (1973).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Czechia

Among biologists born in Czechia, August von Pelzeln ranks 9. Before him are Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794), Georg Joseph Kamel (1661), Carl Borivoj Presl (1794), Rudolf Weigl (1883), Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791), and Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761). After him are Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858), Franz Xaver Fieber (1807), Friedrich Reinitzer (1857), Josephine Kablick (1787), Edmund Reitter (1845), and Karel Domin (1882).

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