BIOLOGIST

Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach

1823 - 1889

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Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (Dresden, 3 January 1823 – Hamburg, 6 May 1889) was a botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century. His father Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (author of Icones Florae Germanicae et Helveticae) was also a well-known botanist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach is the 358th most popular biologist (up from 385th in 2019), the 2,333rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,951st in 2019) and the 65th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach ranks 358 out of 1,097Before him are Craig Mello, Moritz Wagner, Craig Venter, Daniel Solander, Theodore Gill, and Henrietta Lacks. After him are Friedrich Loeffler, Eugenius Warming, Humberto Maturana, Fritz Müller, Antoine Béchamp, and Constantine Samuel Rafinesque.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach ranks 32Before him are Ante Starčević, Katsu Kaishū, Joseph Monier, Gotthold Eisenstein, Pyotr Lavrov, and Konstantin Ushinsky. After him are Sophie Adlersparre, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, and Enrico Betti. Among people deceased in 1889, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach ranks 39Before him are Émile Augier, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, John Ericsson, Elvira Madigan, and Franciscus Donders. After him are Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Alfred Józef Potocki, Bernhard Förster, Charles Mackay, Ion Creangă, and John Hughes.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach ranks 2,334 out of 7,253Before him are Hanns Kerrl (1887), Konrad von Thüringen (1206), Ludwig Crüwell (1892), Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877), Wols (1913), and Michael Lippert (1897). After him are Ludwig Klages (1872), F. C. S. Schiller (1864), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792), Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (1767), and Friedrich Loeffler (1852).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach ranks 65Before him are Hermann Burmeister (1807), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), Valerius Cordus (1515), Wilhelm Peters (1815), Friedrich Boie (1789), and Moritz Wagner (1813). After him are Friedrich Loeffler (1852), Fritz Müller (1822), Otto Kuntze (1843), August Batsch (1761), Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743), and Johann Georg Wagler (1800).