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Christiaan Hendrik Persoon

1761 - 1836

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Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (31 December 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a Cape Colony mycologist who is recognized as one of the founders of mycological taxonomy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christiaan Hendrik Persoon is the 109th most popular biologist (up from 128th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from South Africa (up from 23rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular South African Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon ranks 109 out of 1,097. Before him are Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Georges J. F. Köhler, Philip Miller, Jean-Henri Fabre, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. After him are Stanley B. Prusiner, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, Svante Pääbo, Hermann Joseph Muller, Vladimir Vernadsky, and William John Swainson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon ranks 5. Before him are Pope Pius VIII, Selim III, Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, and Marie Tussaud. After him are Jan Potocki, Jean-Charles Pichegru, August von Kotzebue, William Carey, Philippe Buonarroti, Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Smithson Tennant. Among people deceased in 1836, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon ranks 11. Before him are Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, and William Godwin. After him are Anthony of Saxony, Maria Malibran, Maria Cristina of Savoy, Claude-Louis Navier, Princess Wilhelmine of Baden, and Nathan Mayer Rothschild.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon ranks 21 out of 454. Before him are D. F. Malan (1874), Max Theiler (1899), Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826), Thabo Mbeki (1942), C. R. Swart (1894), and Cyril Ramaphosa (1952). After him are Jacob Zuma (1942), J. G. Strijdom (1893), Sydney Brenner (1927), Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark (1942), Dingane kaSenzangakhona (1795), and Paul Kruger (1825).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In South Africa

Among biologists born in South Africa, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon ranks 2. Before him are Max Theiler (1899). After him are Sydney Brenner (1927), Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907), Louisa Bolus (1877), and Austin Stevens (1950).

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