BIOLOGIST

Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter

1733 - 1806

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Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (27 April 1733 – 11 November 1806), also spelled Koelreuter or Kohlreuter, was a German botanist who pioneered the study of plant fertilization, hybridization and was the first to detect self-incompatibility. He was an observer as well as a rigorous experimenter who used careful crossing experiments although he did not inquire into the nature of heritability. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter is the 679th most popular biologist (down from 647th in 2019), the 4,024th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,268th in 2019) and the 139th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter ranks 679 out of 1,097. Before him are Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, Nikolai Turczaninow, Johann Heinrich Blasius, Axel Gudbrand Blytt, Johannes Müller Argoviensis, and Walter Sutton. After him are Robert Swinhoe, John Sims, Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, John Isaac Briquet, Gustav Radde, and Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1733, Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter ranks 17. Before him are Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland, Daniel Solander, Gottfried van Swieten, Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, Philip Carteret, and Maruyama Ōkyo. After him are Ismail III, Adam Naruszewicz, János Sajnovics, Mikhail Kheraskov, Richard Kirwan, and Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. Among people deceased in 1806, Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter ranks 45. Before him are Jean Joseph Mounier, Charles James Fox, Gabriel François Doyen, Ignaz Schiffermüller, Gim Hongdo, and Karoline von Günderrode. After him are Henry Knox, Heinrich Christian Boie, Benjamin Banneker, Rana Bahadur Shah, Robert Morris, and William Paterson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter ranks 4,026 out of 7,253. Before him are Jutta Kleinschmidt (1962), Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1640), Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809), Gisela Birkemeyer (1931), Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807), and Ernst Baier (1905). After him are Nelson Piquet Jr. (1985), Franz Ehrle (1845), Herbert Achternbusch (1938), Bodo Ramelow (1956), Michael Verhoeven (1938), and Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter ranks 139. Before him are Jacob Sturm (1771), Archibald Reiss (1875), Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845), Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798), Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852), and Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809). After him are Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794), Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (1829), Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (1821), Basilius Besler (1561), Anton Reichenow (1847), and Albert Bernhard Frank (1839).

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