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Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart

1742 - 1795

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Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (4 November 1742, Holderbank, Aargau – 26 June 1795) was a German botanist, a pupil of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala University, and later director of the Botanical Garden of Hannover, where he produced several major botanical works between 1780 and 1793. Ehrhart was the first author to use the rank of subspecies in botanical literature, and he published many subspecific names between 1780 and 1789. Ehrhart issued several exsiccatae, the first one Phytophylacium Ehrhartianum, continens plantas, quas in locis earum natalibus collegit et exsiccavit Fridericus Ehrhart (1780-1785). He was one of the first who prepared exsiccatae for selling them to colleagues, namely the series Arbores, frutices et suffrutices Linnaei quas in usum dendrophilorum collegit et exsiccavit Fr. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart is the 209th most popular biologist (up from 295th in 2019), the 134th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 226th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart ranks 209 out of 1,097. Before him are Ludwig Reichenbach, Wilhelm Johannsen, George C. Williams, Hans Driesch, George Wald, and William Carey. After him are Olaus Rudbeck, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Nikolay Pirogov, Stephan Endlicher, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, and J. Michael Bishop.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1742, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart ranks 12. Before him are Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, James Wilson, Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, Nicolas Leblanc, David Bushnell, and Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier. After him are Dositej Obradović, Pōmare I, François Laurent d'Arlandes, Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, Ignaz von Born, and Charlotte von Stein. Among people deceased in 1795, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart ranks 10. Before him are Sayat-Nova, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Henry Clinton, Ahilyabai Holkar, Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, and Georg Benda. After him are Carl Michael Bellman, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, Pieter Boddaert, Samuel Wallis, Josiah Wedgwood, and John Sullivan.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart ranks 134 out of 1,015. Before him are Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Blaise Cendrars (1887), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), and Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1867). After him are Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), Mario Adorf (1930), Hannes Meyer (1889), Matthäus Merian (1593), Auguste Forel (1848), and Rudolf II, Count of Habsburg (1168).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart ranks 10. Before him are Werner Arber (1929), Carl Nägeli (1817), Gaspard Bauhin (1560), Louis Agassiz (1807), Alexander Agassiz (1835), and Charles Bonnet (1720). After him are Albert von Kölliker (1817), Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810), François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), and Abraham Trembley (1710).

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