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Johan Lange

1818 - 1898

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Johan Martin Christian Lange (20 March 1818 – 3 April 1898) was a prominent Danish botanist. He held the post of Librarian at the Botanical library of the University of Copenhagen from 1851 to 1858. He was Director of the Botanical Garden there from 1856 to 1876, the Reader of botany at the Danish Technical University from 1857 to 1862, and Reader of Botany at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University from 1858 to 1893, achieving full professor standing in 1892. He began editing the Flora Danica in 1858, and was its last editor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johan Lange is the 789th most popular biologist (up from 920th in 2019), the 457th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 573rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Danish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johan Lange ranks 789 out of 1,097. Before him are Bernard Heuvelmans, Karl Julius Perleb, Michel Félix Dunal, Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, and Josephine Kablick. After him are Albert Bruce Jackson, Émile Blanchard, Eduard von Martens, Richard Thomas Lowe, Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, and Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Johan Lange ranks 81. Before him are Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Heinrich Zollinger, Élie-Abel Carrière, Dimitrie Brătianu, Irvin McDowell, and Ole Jacob Broch. After him are Wilhelm Camphausen, William M. Evarts, Joseph Roumanille, Jan Heemskerk, Ludwig Traube, and Ilya Berezin. Among people deceased in 1898, Johan Lange ranks 62. Before him are Calixto García, Anton Seidl, Eli Lilly, Joaquín Crespo, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Ramón Emeterio Betances. After him are Maria Katharina Kasper, James Hall, Félix María Zuloaga, Osbert Salvin, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, and Adolfo Farsari.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Johan Lange ranks 457 out of 1,032. Before him are Klaus Berntsen (1844), Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1584), Holger Thiele (1878), Theodor Philipsen (1840), Thomas Madsen-Mygdal (1876), and Lars Olsen (1961). After him are Johanne Luise Heiberg (1812), Karl Madsen (1855), Johan Nicolai Madvig (1804), Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (1821), Lauge Koch (1892), and Ole Ernst (1940).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among biologists born in Denmark, Johan Lange ranks 12. Before him are Nathaniel Wallich (1786), Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Christen C. Raunkiær (1860), Eugenius Warming (1841), Emil Christian Hansen (1842), and Japetus Steenstrup (1813). After him are Johannes Schmidt (1877), and Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795).

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