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Christen C. Raunkiær

1860 - 1938

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Christen Christensen Raunkiær (29 March 1860 – 11 March 1938) was a Danish botanist, who was a pioneer of plant ecology. He is mainly remembered for his scheme of plant strategies to survive an unfavourable season ("life forms") and his demonstration that the relative abundance of strategies in floras largely corresponded to the Earth's climatic zones. This scheme, the Raunkiær system, is still widely used today and may be seen as a precursor of modern plant strategy schemes, e.g. J. Philip Grime's CSR system. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christen C. Raunkiær is the 345th most popular biologist (down from 271st in 2019), the 216th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 206th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Danish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 345 out of 1,097. Before him are Phillip Allen Sharp, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, George Robert Waterhouse, Josif Pančić, Nehemiah Grew, and Wilhelm Peters. After him are Carl Alexander Clerck, Friedrich Boie, Antonio José Cavanilles, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, and David Julius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 53. Before him are William Kennedy Dickson, Friedrich Naumann, Paul Gustav Fischer, Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz, and Charles Lwanga. After him are Charles Curtis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia, Walter Sickert, Douglas Hyde, and Grandma Moses. Among people deceased in 1938, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 79. Before him are Valery Chkalov, Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, David Riazanov, Jukums Vācietis, Edwin Hall, and Gillis Grafström. After him are Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, George Ellery Hale, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Fayzulla Khodzhayev, and Branislaw Tarashkyevich.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 216 out of 1,032. Before him are Marie Krøyer (1867), Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark (1788), Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Princess Louise of Denmark (1750), Jan Gehl (1936), and Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark (1747). After him are Per Nørgård (1932), Prince Joachim of Denmark (1969), Prince Axel of Denmark (1888), Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1829), Kurt Westergaard (1935), and Inger Christensen (1935).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among biologists born in Denmark, Christen C. Raunkiær ranks 8. Before him are Johan Christian Fabricius (1745), Wilhelm Johannsen (1857), Erik Pontoppidan (1698), Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737), Nathaniel Wallich (1786), and Otto Friedrich Müller (1730). After him are Eugenius Warming (1841), Emil Christian Hansen (1842), Japetus Steenstrup (1813), Johan Lange (1818), Johannes Schmidt (1877), and Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795).

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