BIOLOGIST

Franz Meyen

1804 - 1840

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Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen (28 June 1804 – 2 September 1840) was a Prussian physician and botanist. Meyen was born in Tilsit, East Prussia. In 1830 he wrote Phytotomie, the first major study of plant anatomy. Between 1830 and 1832, he took part in an expedition to South America on board the Prinzess Luise, visiting Peru and Bolivia, describing species then new to science such as the Humboldt penguin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Meyen is the 529th most popular biologist (up from 537th in 2019), the 1,117th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,368th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Russian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Franz Meyen ranks 529 out of 1,097. Before him are Petter Adolf Karsten, Jacques Loeb, Johann Bauhin, Georg August Schweinfurth, Sébastien Vaillant, and Eduard August von Regel. After him are William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, Princess Therese of Bavaria, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, Edouard Van Beneden, William Curtis, and Ernst Schäfer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Franz Meyen ranks 45. Before him are Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Constantin Hansen, Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, Salomon Müller, Pierre François Verhulst, and Jim Bridger. After him are Louis-François-Clement Breguet, Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg, Alvan Clark, Osceola, Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel, and Jules Janin. Among people deceased in 1840, Franz Meyen ranks 31. Before him are Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Anne Lister, and Pierre Dupont de l'Étang. After him are Karl Otfried Müller, Carl Blechen, Frances Burney, John Cockerill, Joseph Johann von Littrow, and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Franz Meyen ranks 1,117 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolay Rukavishnikov (1932), Savely Kramarov (1934), Yegor Ligachyov (1920), Dmitry of Suzdal (1322), Innocent of Alaska (1797), and Mikhail Kuzmin (1872). After him are Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia (1877), Konstantin Thon (1794), Yury Solomin (1935), Vladislav Surkov (1964), Andrey Arshavin (1981), and Yevgeny Kafelnikov (1974).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Franz Meyen ranks 15. Before him are Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Edwin Klebs (1834), Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799), Vladimir Demikhov (1916), and Dmitry Belyayev (1917). After him are Kliment Timiryazev (1843), Fritz Schaudinn (1871), Victor Motschulsky (1810), Johann Friedrich Adam (1780), Alexei Fedchenko (1844), and David Keilin (1887).

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