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Franz Xaver von Wulfen

1728 - 1805

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Franz Xaver Freiherr von Wulfen (5 November 1728 – 17 March 1805) was an Austrian botanist, zoologist, mineralogist, alpinist, and Jesuit priest. He is credited with discovering the flowering plants Wulfenia carinthiaca, Saxifraga moschata, and Stellaria bulbosa. In 1845 the lead molybdate mineral wulfenite was named in his honor by Wilhelm Karl von Haidinger. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Franz Xaver von Wulfen is the 570th most popular biologist (down from 377th in 2019), the 184th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 147th in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Franz Xaver von Wulfen ranks 570 out of 1,097. Before him are Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, Wilhem de Haan, Alfred Newton, Alwin Berger, Henri Cassini, and Eduard Friedrich Poeppig. After him are Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, Edmond Albius, Kristine Bonnevie, Georg von Langsdorff, August W. Eichler, and Charles Antoine Lemaire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Franz Xaver von Wulfen ranks 26. Before him are Matthew Boulton, Johann Andreas Stein, Carlo Allioni, Kirill Razumovski, Ferdinando Galiani, and Shah Alam II. After him are José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca, Johann Gerhard König, Pietro Verri, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, Ivan Polzunov, and John Wilkinson. Among people deceased in 1805, Franz Xaver von Wulfen ranks 21. Before him are Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, William Paley, Pehr Osbeck, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, and Nicolas-Jacques Conté. After him are John Robison, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville, Conrad Moench, Ji Yun, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, and Thomas Wedgwood.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Franz Xaver von Wulfen ranks 184 out of 661. Before him are Sinan Sakić (1956), Vladica Kovačević (1940), Blagoje Marjanović (1907), Zoran Janković (1953), Ivan Bek (1909), and Stojan Novaković (1842). After him are Sava II (1199), Dejan Bodiroga (1973), Vladica Popović (1935), Laza Lazarević (1851), Silvester Takač (1940), and Slobodan Santrač (1946).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Serbia

Among biologists born in Serbia, Franz Xaver von Wulfen ranks 1. 

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