BIOLOGIST

Heinrich Moritz Willkomm

1821 - 1895

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Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (29 June 1821, Herwigsdorf – 26 August 1895, Schloss Wartenberg in Wartenberg am Rollberg, Bohemia) was a German botanist who served as a professor of botany at Tharandt, the Imperial University of Dorpat and at the University of Prague. He travelled widely across Spain and Portugal and became a specialist on the flora of the Iberian region. The standard author abbreviation Willk. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinrich Moritz Willkomm is the 688th most popular biologist (up from 840th in 2019), the 4,060th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,952nd in 2019) and the 142nd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm ranks 688 out of 1,097. Before him are Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, John Isaac Briquet, Gustav Radde, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Albert Charles Smith, and Alfred Romer. After him are Basilius Besler, Alfred Sturtevant, Josef August Schultes, Jean-Étienne Guettard, Anton Reichenow, and Auguste Duméril.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm ranks 78. Before him are Antonio Ciseri, Nikolai Zaremba, Apollon Maykov, Archduke Friedrich of Austria, Janko Matúška, and Friedrich Kiel. After him are Henri Alexis Brialmont, Michel Carré, Amalie Dietrich, Samuel Baker, Charles of Mount Argus, and Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae. Among people deceased in 1895, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm ranks 68. Before him are Hayranidil Kadın, Thomas Francis Wade, Jorge Isaacs, Gustav Spörer, Nikolay Girs, and Ludwig Schläfli. After him are Friedrich Tietjen, Kostandin Kristoforidhi, Karl Schenk, L. L. Langstroth, Woldemar, Prince of Lippe, and Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm ranks 4,062 out of 7,253. Before him are Roman Weidenfeller (1980), Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen (1843), Karl-Heinz Metzner (1923), Cosmas Damian Asam (1686), Rupert Mayer (1876), and Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1536). After him are Edgar Reitz (1932), Basilius Besler (1561), Irm Hermann (1942), Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau (1799), Laura Perls (1905), and Inge Scholl (1917).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm ranks 142. Before him are Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798), Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852), Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809), Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (1733), Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794), and Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829). After him are Basilius Besler (1561), Anton Reichenow (1847), Albert Bernhard Frank (1839), Conrad Moench (1744), Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792), and Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808).

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