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Josef August Schultes

1773 - 1831

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Josef (Joseph) August Schultes (15 April 1773 in Vienna – 21 April 1831 in Landshut) was an Austrian botanist and professor from Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer (1763–1819), he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium. In 1821, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was the father of Julius Hermann Schultes (1804–1840). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josef August Schultes is the 691st most popular biologist (down from 648th in 2019), the 764th most popular biography from Austria (up from 801st in 2019) and the 16th most popular Austrian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Josef August Schultes ranks 691 out of 1,097. Before him are Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Albert Charles Smith, Alfred Romer, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, Basilius Besler, and Alfred Sturtevant. After him are Jean-Étienne Guettard, Anton Reichenow, Auguste Duméril, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, William Withering, and Albert Bernhard Frank.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, Josef August Schultes ranks 43. Before him are Joseph de Villèle, Agostino Bassi, Jacob Aall, Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, Yuri Lisyansky, and Sally Hemings. After him are Johann Karl Burckhardt, François Fournier-Sarlovèze, Mihály Pollack, José Rondeau, Joseph Woelfl, and Mihály Csokonai. Among people deceased in 1831, Josef August Schultes ranks 44. Before him are Sarah Siddons, Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Anton Delvig, and John Sims. After him are Nat Turner, Johannes Baptista von Albertini, Mariana Pineda, Dmitry Senyavin, Willem Bilderdijk, and José Tomás Ovalle.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Josef August Schultes ranks 764 out of 1,424. Before him are Franz Wagner (1911), Wolfgang Schneiderhan (1915), Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1881), Franz Brunner (1913), Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart (1824), and Karl Wendlinger (1968). After him are Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. (1828), Johann Michael Vogl (1768), Willy Puchner (1952), Erich Eliskases (1913), Matthias Braun (1684), and Baldur Preiml (1939).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Josef August Schultes ranks 16. Before him are Clemens von Pirquet (1874), Otto Stapf (1857), Franz Steindachner (1834), Joseph Rock (1884), Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727), and Pál Kitaibel (1757). After him are Richard Wettstein (1863), Johann Natterer (1787), Franz Unger (1800), Carl Eduard Hellmayr (1878), and Angelika Amon (1967).

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