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Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn

1809 - 1864

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Friedrich Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn was a German-born Dutch botanist and geologist. His father, Friedrich Junghuhn was a barber and a surgeon. His mother was Christine Marie Schiele. Junghuhn studied medicine in Halle and in Berlin from 1827 to 1831, meanwhile (1830) publishing a seminal paper on mushrooms in Linnaea. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn is the 510th most popular biologist (down from 477th in 2019), the 3,225th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,478th in 2019) and the 97th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn ranks 510 out of 1,097. Before him are Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Dmitry Belyayev, Pehr Kalm, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, Christian von Steven, and Robert H. MacArthur. After him are Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Johann Jakob Heckel, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Aaron Aaronsohn, Alec Jeffreys, and Louisa Bolus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn ranks 42. Before him are Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky, Jules Favre, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, Oswald Heer, Heinrich Hoffmann, and Kit Carson. After him are Constantin von Alvensleben, Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, Bénédict Morel, Benjamin Peirce, Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuán, and James Glaisher. Among people deceased in 1864, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn ranks 46. Before him are Johann Lukas Schönlein, Charles Julien Brianchon, Heinrich Rose, Imre Madách, Sakuma Shōzan, and Simon von Stampfer. After him are Luke Howard, Pedro Santana, Simonas Daukantas, Romuald Traugutt, Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg, and Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn ranks 3,227 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Isabella of Croÿ (1856), Princess Gisela Agnes of Anhalt-Köthen (1722), Max Wünsche (1914), Richard Hildebrandt (1897), Charles Galton Darwin (1887), and Adam Gottlob Moltke (1710). After him are Louis VII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1658), Karl Friedrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1712), Rainald of Dassel (1114), Catherine of Saxony, Archduchess of Austria (1468), Grete Stern (1904), and Christian Cannabich (1731).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn ranks 97. Before him are Georg Franz Hoffmann (1760), Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840), Lorenz Heister (1683), Carl Chun (1852), Salomon Müller (1804), and Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834). After him are Johann Jakob Heckel (1790), Jacques Loeb (1859), Eduard August von Regel (1815), Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850), Ernst Schäfer (1910), and Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774).

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