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Carl Ludwig Blume

1796 - 1862

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Charles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume (9 June 1796 – 3 February 1862) was a German-Dutch botanist and entomologist who spent most of his professional life in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. As deputy director of agriculture at the Bogor Botanical Gardens in Java (1823–1826) and later director of the Rijksherbarium in Leiden, he conducted extensive studies of Southeast Asian flora, publishing numerous influential works including Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië (1825–1827) and Rumphia (1835–1849). Together with Philipp Franz von Siebold, Blume co-founded the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Horticulture in the Netherlands in 1842, helping to revitalise the country's reputation as a centre for botanical study and exotic plant cultivation. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Ludwig Blume is the 274th most popular biologist (up from 341st in 2019), the 1,827th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,644th in 2019) and the 44th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Ludwig Blume ranks 274 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Gustav Carus, Desmond Morris, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Francisco Varela, C. L. Gloger, and Jack W. Szostak. After him are Leopold Fitzinger, Morten Thrane Brünnich, Sergei Winogradsky, James Rothman, Eduard Rüppell, and Nathaniel Wallich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Carl Ludwig Blume ranks 17. Before him are Jakob Steiner, Walter Hunt, Peter Fendi, Philipp Franz von Siebold, Giovanni Pacini, and Carl Loewe. After him are Ang Duong, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia, François Mignet, Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao, and Princess Maria Ferdinanda of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1862, Carl Ludwig Blume ranks 17. Before him are James Clark Ross, Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, Robert Knox, Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Carlos Antonio López, and Elizabeth Siddal. After him are Karl Nesselrode, Henry Thomas Buckle, Ludwig Uhland, Jeanne Duval, Johann Nestroy, and Simon Fraser.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Ludwig Blume ranks 1,827 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm Schepmann (1894), Peter Henlein (1479), Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg (1886), Lothar von Trotha (1848), Armin Meiwes (1961), and Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kassel (1789). After him are Louis VI, Elector Palatine (1539), Christoph Graupner (1683), Simon Mayr (1763), Alfred Einstein (1880), Horst Seehofer (1949), and Dieter Rams (1932).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Ludwig Blume ranks 44. Before him are Johann Baptist von Spix (1781), Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767), Carl Sigismund Kunth (1788), Friedrich Parrot (1791), Carl Gustav Carus (1789), and Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (1806). After him are Eduard Rüppell (1794), Lorenz Oken (1779), Otto Brunfels (1488), Jean Cabanis (1816), Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811), and Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725).

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