BIOLOGIST

Ludwig Reichenbach

1793 - 1879

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Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (8 January 1793 – 17 March 1879) was a German botanist, ornithologist and illustrator. It was he who first requested Leopold Blaschka to make a set of glass marine invertebrate models for scientific education and museum showcasing, the successful commission giving rise to the creation of the Blaschkas' Glass sea creatures and, subsequently and indirectly, the more famous Glass Flowers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ludwig Reichenbach is the 203rd most popular biologist (up from 382nd in 2019), the 1,243rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,920th in 2019) and the 26th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ludwig Reichenbach ranks 203 out of 1,097Before him are Michel Adanson, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Hermann Schlegel, Joseph Banks, Har Gobind Khorana, and César Milstein. After him are Wilhelm Johannsen, George C. Williams, Hans Driesch, George Wald, William Carey, and Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Ludwig Reichenbach ranks 10Before him are Karl Ludwig Hencke, George Green, Victor of Aveyron, Ján Kollár, Juan Manuel de Rosas, and Nana Asmaʼu. After him are Michel Chasles, Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira, Radama I, James Dunlop, Josef Ressel, and Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. Among people deceased in 1879, Ludwig Reichenbach ranks 14Before him are Rowland Hill, Thomas Couture, Maria Teresa of Savoy, Gottfried Semper, Charles De Coster, and Julia Margaret Cameron. After him are August Grisebach, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Jón Sigurðsson, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Heinrich Geißler, and Sher Ali Khan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ludwig Reichenbach ranks 1,243 out of 7,253Before him are Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1810), Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (1661), Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt (1601), Paul Natorp (1854), Rudolf von Sebottendorf (1875), and Manfred Rommel (1928). After him are Robert Michels (1876), William, Duke of Nassau (1792), Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse (1777), Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress of Brandenburg (1597), Reinhard Genzel (1952), and Bruno the Great (925).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Ludwig Reichenbach ranks 26Before him are Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739), Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775), Julius Richard Petri (1852), Walther Flemming (1843), Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), and Hermann Schlegel (1804). After him are Hans Driesch (1867), Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), Bert Sakmann (1942), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), August Grisebach (1814), and Albert Günther (1830).