BIOLOGIST

Nathaniel Wallich

1786 - 1854

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Nathaniel Wolff Wallich (28 January 1786 – 28 April 1854) was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India, initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later for the Danish East India Company and the British East India Company. He was involved in the early development of the Calcutta Botanical Garden, describing many new plant species and developing a large herbarium collection which was distributed to collections in Europe. Several of the plants that he collected were named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nathaniel Wallich is the 280th most popular biologist (up from 730th in 2019), the 190th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 483rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Danish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nathaniel Wallich ranks 280 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Ludwig Blume, Leopold Fitzinger, Morten Thrane Brünnich, Sergei Winogradsky, James Rothman, and Eduard Rüppell. After him are Johann Hermann, Hideyo Noguchi, André Marie Constant Duméril, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, John Gould, and René Louiche Desfontaines.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1786, Nathaniel Wallich ranks 23. Before him are John Franklin, Giovanni Battista Amici, Duke Pius August in Bavaria, Kunisada, Chief Seattle, and Ludwig Börne. After him are Julius Jacob von Haynau, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, William George Horner, Gaspar del Bufalo, Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, and Nicolás Bravo. Among people deceased in 1854, Nathaniel Wallich ranks 13. Before him are Johann Peter Eckermann, Charles III, Duke of Parma, Józef Elsner, Zénaïde Bonaparte, Karl Adolph von Basedow, and Fructuoso Rivera. After him are Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, Almeida Garrett, Marcellin Marbot, Jeremias Gotthelf, John Martin, and Kamehameha III.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Nathaniel Wallich ranks 190 out of 1,032. Before him are Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (1970), Ole Nydahl (1941), Jens Fink-Jensen (1956), Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg (1887), Vilhelm Thomsen (1842), and Edvard Eriksen (1876). After him are Preben Elkjær (1957), Peter Naur (1928), Guthrum (830), Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester (1946), Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony (1532), and Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1609).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Denmark

Among biologists born in Denmark, Nathaniel Wallich ranks 6. Before him are Hans Christian Gram (1853), Johan Christian Fabricius (1745), Wilhelm Johannsen (1857), Erik Pontoppidan (1698), and Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737). After him are Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Christen C. Raunkiær (1860), Eugenius Warming (1841), Emil Christian Hansen (1842), Japetus Steenstrup (1813), and Johan Lange (1818).

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