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Christian Konrad Sprengel

1750 - 1816

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Christian Konrad Sprengel (22 September 1750 – 7 April 1816) was a German naturalist, theologist, and teacher. He is most famous for his research on plant sexuality. Sprengel was the first to recognize that the function of flowers was to attract insects, and that nature favored cross-pollination. Along with the work of Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter he set the foundations for the modern study of floral biology and anthecology, but his work was not widely recognized until Charles Darwin examined and confirmed several of his observations almost 50 years later; see Fertilisation of Orchids (1862). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Christian Konrad Sprengel is the 489th most popular chemist (down from 484th in 2019), the 4,318th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,447th in 2019) and the 87th most popular German Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Christian Konrad Sprengel ranks 489 out of 602. Before him are Ivan Horbachevsky, Archibald Scott Couper, Alwin Mittasch, William Nicholson, Allen J. Bard, and Edward Charles Howard. After him are Moungi Bawendi, Alexander Nesmeyanov, Elizabeth Roboz Einstein, Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, Adolph Strecker, and Henri Laborit.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1750, Christian Konrad Sprengel ranks 39. Before him are Anton Stamitz, Daniel Gottlob Türk, Henry Knox, Princess Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Ignacy Potocki, and Besiki. After him are Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, Aaron Arrowsmith, Prince Frederick of Great Britain, Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa, John André, and Frederick Muhlenberg. Among people deceased in 1816, Christian Konrad Sprengel ranks 30. Before him are Hipólito Ruiz López, Princess Caroline Louise of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Dorothea Jordan, Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, and Edward Charles Howard. After him are Domenico Vandelli, Samuel Dexter, Gouverneur Morris, and James McHenry.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Christian Konrad Sprengel ranks 4,320 out of 7,253. Before him are Rudolf Wagner (1805), Tom Wlaschiha (1973), Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825), Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt (1855), Johann Nicolaus Bach (1669), and Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (1801). After him are Walter Kaufmann (1871), Heinrich Zimmer (1890), Ludwig Aschoff (1866), Manfred Eicher (1943), Wolfgang Kleff (1946), and Heinrich Kayser (1853).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Christian Konrad Sprengel ranks 87. Before him are Peter Armbruster (1931), Walter Noddack (1893), Theodor Curtius (1857), Hieronymous Theodor Richter (1824), Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842), and Alwin Mittasch (1869). After him are Adolph Strecker (1822), Albert Ladenburg (1842), Robert Havemann (1910), Ludwig Mond (1839), Julius Wilbrand (1839), and Ludwig Knorr (1859).

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