BIOLOGIST

Johann Georg Wagler

1800 - 1832

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Johann Georg Wagler (28 March 1800 – 23 August 1832) was a German herpetologist and ornithologist. Wagler was assistant to Johann Baptist von Spix, and gave lectures in zoology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich after it was moved to Munich. He worked on the extensive collections brought back from Brazil by Spix, and published partly together with him books on reptiles from Brazil. Wagler wrote Monographia Psittacorum (1832), which included the correct naming of the blue macaws. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Georg Wagler is the 387th most popular biologist (up from 491st in 2019), the 2,519th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,546th in 2019) and the 71st most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Georg Wagler ranks 387 out of 1,097. Before him are Esther Lederberg, Michał Boym, François-Alphonse Forel, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Carlo Allioni, and Louis Claude Richard. After him are Josias Braun-Blanquet, Nicolaas Laurens Burman, Carl Borivoj Presl, Carl Jakob Sundevall, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, and William Elford Leach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1800, Johann Georg Wagler ranks 33. Before him are George Bentham, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Princess Elisabeth of Savoy, Aga Khan I, Mustafa Reşid Pasha, and Ányos Jedlik. After him are Evangelos Zappas, Ekkathat, Charles Rogier, Jakob Lorber, Auguste von Harrach, and Emil Aarestrup. Among people deceased in 1832, Johann Georg Wagler ranks 22. Before him are Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, Franz Xaver von Zach, Carl Friedrich Zelter, Jean Maximilien Lamarque, and Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona. After him are Aleksander Orłowski, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, Manuel García, Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, Demetrios Ypsilantis, and Ghazi Muhammad.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Georg Wagler ranks 2,520 out of 7,253. Before him are Adalbert of Hamburg (1000), Marco Reus (1989), Heinrich Bär (1913), Sophia Hedwig of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1592), Klaus Wolfermann (1946), and Heinrich Kiepert (1818). After him are Paul Giesler (1895), Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden (1824), Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt (1831), George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1779), Helmuth Plessner (1892), and Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck (1620).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Georg Wagler ranks 71. Before him are Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Friedrich Loeffler (1852), Fritz Müller (1822), Otto Kuntze (1843), August Batsch (1761), and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743). After him are Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (1916), Theodor Boveri (1862), Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627), Karl Koch (1809), Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), and Georg August Goldfuss (1782).

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