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Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius

1794 - 1868

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Carl Friedrich Philipp (Karl Friedrich Philipp) von Martius (17 April 1794 – 13 December 1868) was a German botanist and explorer. Between 1817 and 1820, he travelled 10,000 km through Brazil while collecting botanical specimens. His most important work was a comprehensive flora of Brazil, Flora Brasiliensis, which he initiated in 1840 and was completed posthumously in 1906. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius is the 222nd most popular biologist (up from 282nd in 2019), the 1,403rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,223rd in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius ranks 222 out of 1,097. Before him are Mikhail Tsvet, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Oldfield Thomas, James Dwight Dana, Bert Sakmann, and Eric F. Wieschaus. After him are August Grisebach, Jeffrey C. Hall, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Temple Grandin, Waldemar Haffkine, and John James Audubon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius ranks 9. Before him are Elias Magnus Fries, Matthew C. Perry, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Theobald Boehm, and Wilhelm Müller. After him are Józef Bem, Ignaz Moscheles, William Whewell, Léon Cogniet, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, and Eduard Rüppell. Among people deceased in 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius ranks 17. Before him are William T. G. Morton, Franz Berwald, Okita Sōji, Adalbert Stifter, François-Édouard Picot, and Mihailo Obrenović. After him are James Brooke, Christian Friedrich Schönbein, James Mayer de Rothschild, Kondō Isami, Rasoherina, and Julius Plücker.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius ranks 1,403 out of 7,253. Before him are Widukind of Corvey (925), Constantin Carathéodory (1873), Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709), Anselm Feuerbach (1829), Walter Simons (1861), and Thomas Kretschmann (1962). After him are Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752), Arthur Scherbius (1878), Leopold Gmelin (1788), August Grisebach (1814), Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), and Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius ranks 30. Before him are Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), Hermann Schlegel (1804), Ludwig Reichenbach (1793), Hans Driesch (1867), Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), and Bert Sakmann (1942). After him are August Grisebach (1814), Albert Günther (1830), Theodor Escherich (1857), Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802), Carl Correns (1864), and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797).

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