BIOLOGIST

Curt Backeberg

1894 - 1966

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Curt Backeberg (2 August 1894 in Lüneburg, Germany – 14 January 1966) was a German horticulturist especially known for the collection and classification of cacti. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Curt Backeberg is the 963rd most popular biologist (down from 708th in 2019), the 5,152nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,487th in 2019) and the 184th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Curt Backeberg ranks 963 out of 1,097. Before him are Jinzō Matsumura, Gilbert White, Colin Munro MacLeod, Robert Morison, Grigore Antipa, and Ivan Lepyokhin. After him are William Diller Matthew, Archibald Menzies, John Torrey, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky, Richard Evans Schultes, and Irene Manton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Curt Backeberg ranks 233. Before him are Tay Garnett, Arthur Freed, Oliver Leese, Peter Warlock, Robert Benson, and Belle Moore. After him are Alan Crosland, Francisco Pagazaurtundúa, Arthur Fadden, Agnes von Krusenstjerna, Roger Vercel, and August Dvorak. Among people deceased in 1966, Curt Backeberg ranks 195. Before him are Tom Florie, Dimitar Dimov, Alice Pearce, Anders Petersen, Paula Strasberg, and Avtandil Koridze. After him are Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Natalena Koroleva, Áron Tamási, Verna Felton, Charles Bassett, and Néstor Guillén.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Curt Backeberg ranks 5,155 out of 7,253. Before him are Klaus Wunder (1950), Martina Hellmann (1960), Lothar Späth (1937), Bernd Mayländer (1971), Manfred Manglitz (1940), and Siegfried Brietzke (1952). After him are Katerina Tikhonova (1986), Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg (1813), Margot Eskens (1936), Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (1971), Ernst Krebs (1906), and Franz Xaver Kroetz (1946).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Curt Backeberg ranks 184. Before him are Johann August Ephraim Goeze (1731), Otto Bütschli (1848), Carl H. Eigenmann (1863), Johann Christoph Wendland (1755), Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764), and Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808). After him are Tilly Edinger (1897), Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727), Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (1825), Heinrich Kuhl (1797), Max Fürbringer (1846), and George Engelmann (1809).

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