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Erich von Tschermak

1871 - 1962

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Erich Tschermak, Edler von Seysenegg (15 November 1871 – 11 October 1962) was an Austrian agronomist who developed several new disease-resistant crops, including wheat-rye and oat hybrids. He was a son of the Moravia-born mineralogist Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg. His maternal grandfather was the botanist, Eduard Fenzl, who taught Gregor Mendel botany during his student days in Vienna. He received his doctorate from the University of Halle, Germany, in 1896. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erich von Tschermak is the 321st most popular biologist (up from 326th in 2019), the 450th most popular biography from Austria (up from 520th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Austrian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Erich von Tschermak ranks 321 out of 1,097. Before him are Jean Victoir Audouin, Ian Wilmut, Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, David Bruce, and Christian Ludwig Brehm. After him are Willi Hennig, Andrew Fire, Erik Acharius, David Baltimore, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, and Carol W. Greider.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Erich von Tschermak ranks 51. Before him are Stephen Crane, Fritz Hofmann, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Guillermo Kahlo, John Sloan, and Fedor Tokarev. After him are Jovan Dučić, Giuseppe Motta, Mariano Fortuny, Ovide Decroly, Benjamin I of Constantinople, and Hermann Abert. Among people deceased in 1962, Erich von Tschermak ranks 68. Before him are Muhammad VIII al-Amin, Trygve Gulbranssen, Wilhelm Ohnesorge, E. E. Cummings, Poul Nielsen, and Tod Browning. After him are Henri Wallon, Antoine Pevsner, Richard Aldington, Enrico Mattei, Kirsten Flagstad, and Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Erich von Tschermak ranks 450 out of 1,424. Before him are René Spitz (1887), Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza (1907), Lotte Lenya (1898), Marisa Mell (1939), Jack Unterweger (1951), and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1620). After him are Otto F. Kernberg (1928), Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805), Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897), Johann Strauss III (1866), Annie Fischer (1914), and Hans Gross (1847).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Erich von Tschermak ranks 9. Before him are Karl von Frisch (1886), Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901), Othenio Abel (1875), Joy Adamson (1910), Leopold Fitzinger (1802), and Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (1735). After him are Clemens von Pirquet (1874), Otto Stapf (1857), Franz Steindachner (1834), Joseph Rock (1884), Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727), and Pál Kitaibel (1757).

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