BIOLOGIST

Johann Gerhard König

1728 - 1785

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Johann Gerhard König (29 November 1728 – 26 June 1785) was a Baltic German botanist and physician who served in the Tranquebar Mission, India before joining service under the Nawab of Arcot, and then the English East India Company. He collected natural history specimens including plants, particularly those of medical interest, from the region and several species are named after him including the curry tree (Murraya koenigii). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Gerhard König is the 668th most popular biologist (down from 554th in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 107th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Latvian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Gerhard König ranks 668 out of 1,097. Before him are Archibald Reiss, Charles Alexandre Lesueur, Hipólito Ruiz López, Edward Forbes, Heinz Christian Pander, and Eugene Odum. After him are Amotz Zahavi, Japetus Steenstrup, Wilhelm Pfeffer, Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling, Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, and Nikolai Turczaninow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1728, Johann Gerhard König ranks 28. Before him are Carlo Allioni, Kirill Razumovski, Ferdinando Galiani, Shah Alam II, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, and José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca. After him are Pietro Verri, Maria Angela Ardinghelli, Ivan Polzunov, John Wilkinson, Thomas Warton, and Caesar Rodney. Among people deceased in 1785, Johann Gerhard König ranks 18. Before him are Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg, Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt, Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duchess Frederica of Württemberg, and Johan Herman Wessel. After him are Ali-Morad Khan Zand, Gottfried August Homilius, János Sajnovics, Stephen Hopkins, Ventura Rodríguez, and John Belchier.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Johann Gerhard König ranks 117 out of 323. Before him are Lya Mara (1897), Ernst von Bergmann (1836), Andris Bērziņš (1951), Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg (1802), Heinz Christian Pander (1794), and Elīna Garanča (1976). After him are Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879), Jāzeps Vītols (1863), Alfrēds Rubiks (1935), Matvei Gedenshtrom (1780), Jānis Daliņš (1904), and Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen (1913).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Latvia

Among biologists born in Latvia, Johann Gerhard König ranks 6. Before him are Karl Eichwald (1795), Alexander Kovalevsky (1840), Georg August Schweinfurth (1836), Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809), and Heinz Christian Pander (1794).

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