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Carl Friedrich von Ledebour

1786 - 1851

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Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (8 July 1786 in Stralsund – 4 July 1851 in Munich; also Karl Friedrich von Ledebour) was a Baltic German botanist. Between 1811 and 1836, he was professor of science in the University of Tartu, Estonia. His most important works were Flora Altaica, the first Flora of the Altay Mountains, published in 1833, and Flora Rossica, published in four volumes between 1841 and 1853, the first complete flora of the Russian Empire. New species he described for the first time in the Flora Altaica include Malus sieversii (as Pyrus sieversii), the wild ancestor of the apple, and the Siberian Larch (Larix sibirica). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Friedrich von Ledebour is the 630th most popular biologist (down from 436th in 2019), the 3,811th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,264th in 2019) and the 126th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour ranks 630 out of 1,097. Before him are Aldo Leopold, Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet, Volcher Coiter, Charles David Keeling, Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, and Carl Bolle. After him are Charles Horton Peck, Joseph Rock, Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman, John Richardson, Philip Barker-Webb, and August von Pelzeln.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour ranks 41. Before him are Justinus Kerner, Agustina de Aragón, Albrecht Adam, Sergey Uvarov, Alexander Chavchavadze, and José María Vargas. After him are Sunthorn Phu, Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov, Moshoeshoe I, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Pavel Schilling, and Louis Vicat. Among people deceased in 1851, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour ranks 39. Before him are Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol, Alexander Alyabyev, Marie Jules César Savigny, Ramón Freire, Manuel Gómez Pedraza, and Esteban Echeverría. After him are Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, Dawud Pasha of Baghdad, William Nicol, Andrés Quintana Roo, Karl Freiherr von Müffling, and Giovanni Berchet.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour ranks 3,813 out of 7,253. Before him are Carl Bolle (1821), Traugott Herr (1890), Georg Gottfried Gervinus (1805), Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1823), Horst Blankenburg (1947), and Countess Palatine Anna Maria of Neuburg (1575). After him are Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833), Peter Armbruster (1931), Norbert Lammert (1948), Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1762), Peter Stein (1937), and James III, Margrave of Baden-Hachberg (1562).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour ranks 126. Before him are Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781), Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742), Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778), Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757), Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766), and Carl Bolle (1821). After him are Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773), Johann Julius Walbaum (1724), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), Karl Hugo Strunz (1910), Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782), and Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824).

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