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Johann Jacob Dillenius

1684 - 1747

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Johann Jacob Dillen Dillenius (1684 – 2 April 1747) was a German botanist. He is known for his Hortus Elthamensis ("Eltham Garden") on the rare plants around Eltham, London, and for his Historia muscorum ("History of Mosses"), a natural history of lower plants including mosses, liverworts, hornworts, lycopods, algae, lichens and fungi. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Jacob Dillenius is the 808th most popular biologist (down from 737th in 2019), the 4,499th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,602nd in 2019) and the 167th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Johann Jacob Dillenius ranks 808 out of 1,097. Before him are Henry Nicholas Ridley, Tommaso Salvadori, Lilian Gibbs, Jane Colden, Ludwik Hirszfeld, and Giacomo Bresadola. After him are Jules Pierre Rambur, Aimée Antoinette Camus, William Thomas Blanford, João Barbosa Rodrigues, Herbert Giles, and Mary-Claire King.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1684, Johann Jacob Dillenius ranks 21. Before him are Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Matthias Bel, Edward Vernon, Francesco Manfredini, and Matthias Braun.  Among people deceased in 1747, Johann Jacob Dillenius ranks 22. Before him are Jean-Féry Rebel, Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Giulia Lama, and Andrey Osterman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Jacob Dillenius ranks 4,502 out of 7,253. Before him are Alexander Kanoldt (1881), August Spies (1855), Josef Pieper (1904), Elisabeth Magdalena of Pomerania (1580), Franziskus von Bettinger (1850), and Hans Schwartz (1913). After him are Reinhold Münzenberg (1909), Margravine Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1745), Theodor Blank (1905), Princess Marie of Nassau (1825), Michael Zorc (1962), and Corona Schröter (1751).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Johann Jacob Dillenius ranks 167. Before him are Karl Moritz Schumann (1851), Karl Julius Perleb (1794), Eduard Oscar Schmidt (1823), Eduard von Martens (1831), Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein (1768), and Ole Borch (1626). After him are Nicolaus Michael Oppel (1782), Charlotte Auerbach (1899), Gustav Lindau (1866), Albrecht Thaer (1752), Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz (1834), and Ernst Ahl (1898).

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