BIOLOGIST

Georg August Schweinfurth

1836 - 1925

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Georg August Schweinfurth (29 December 1836 – 19 September 1925) was a Baltic German botanist and ethnologist who explored East Central Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg August Schweinfurth is the 526th most popular biologist (up from 580th in 2019), the 84th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 113th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Latvian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Georg August Schweinfurth ranks 526 out of 1,097Before him are Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Charles Chamberland, Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, Petter Adolf Karsten, Jacques Loeb, and Johann Bauhin. After him are Sébastien Vaillant, Eduard August von Regel, Franz Meyen, William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, Princess Therese of Bavaria, and Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Georg August Schweinfurth ranks 49Before him are Pauline von Metternich, Matsudaira Katamori, Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, Máximo Gómez, Princess Anna of Saxony, and Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg. After him are Giuseppe Abbati, Edward Poynter, Nakayama Yoshiko, Juliette Adam, Andrés Avelino Cáceres, and Casimir de Candolle. Among people deceased in 1925, Georg August Schweinfurth ranks 84Before him are Grigory Kotovsky, Francis Darwin, Bajram Curri, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, André Caplet, and Ephraim Moses Lilien. After him are Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Julian Marchlewski, Princess Therese of Bavaria, J. M. E. McTaggart, Amy Lowell, and Alexander Miasnikian.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Georg August Schweinfurth ranks 84 out of 323Before him are Ivars Godmanis (1951), Jānis K. Bērziņš (1889), Alexander von Keyserling (1815), Vizma Belševica (1931), Lūcija Garūta (1902), and Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (1899). After him are Jānis Balodis (1881), Nikolay Lossky (1870), Yevgeny Miller (1867), Yury Tynyanov (1894), Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801), and Lina Stern (1878).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Latvia

Among biologists born in Latvia, Georg August Schweinfurth ranks 3Before him are Karl Eichwald (1795), and Alexander Kovalevsky (1840). After him are Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809), Heinz Christian Pander (1794), and Johann Gerhard König (1728).