BIOLOGIST

Franz Unger

1800 - 1870

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Franz Joseph Andreas Nicolaus Unger (30 November 1800 in Gut Amthof near village Leutschach in Styria, Austria – 13 February 1870 in Graz) was an Austrian botanist, paleontologist and plant physiologist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Unger is the 801st most popular biologist (down from 584th in 2019), the 851st most popular biography from Austria (down from 755th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Austrian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Franz Unger ranks 801 out of 1,097Before him are Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein, Ole Borch, David Suzuki, Jan Frederik Gronovius, John Jacob Abel, and Edmund Reitter. After him are Henry Nicholas Ridley, Tommaso Salvadori, Lilian Gibbs, Jane Colden, Ludwik Hirszfeld, and Giacomo Bresadola.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, Franz Unger ranks 65Before him are Nat Turner, Kitsos Tzavelas, Otto August Rosenberger, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Ramón María Narváez, 1st Duke of Valencia, and John Phillips. After him are Sayed Morad Khan, Heinrich Göppert, Osip Senkovsky, Ali Shah Durrani, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, and Christian Lassen. Among people deceased in 1870, Franz Unger ranks 54Before him are Johann Heinrich Blasius, Carlos Soublette, Auguste Duméril, Christian Albrecht Jensen, Carl August von Steinheil, and Juan Crisóstomo Falcón. After him are Jules Pierre Rambur, Albrecht von Graefe, Charles Joseph Minard, Thomas Campbell Eyton, Joséphine Fodor, and Michael William Balfe.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Franz Unger ranks 851 out of 1,424Before him are Christian Schwarz-Schilling (1930), Baron Karl von Hasenauer (1833), Erik Schinegger (1948), Rudolf Raftl (1911), Leopold Vietoris (1891), and Trixi Schuba (1951). After him are Erwin Komenda (1904), Rudolf Viertl (1902), Franz Bartl (1915), Leopold Hofmann (1905), Bruno Pezzey (1955), and Joe May (1880).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Franz Unger ranks 19Before him are Joseph Rock (1884), Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727), Pál Kitaibel (1757), Josef August Schultes (1773), Richard Wettstein (1863), and Johann Natterer (1787). After him are Carl Eduard Hellmayr (1878), and Angelika Amon (1967).