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Nils Johan Andersson

1821 - 1880

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Nils Johan Andersson (20 February 1821 Gärdserum, Småland, Sweden – 27 March 1880 Stockholm), was a Swedish botanist and traveller. The standard author abbreviation Andersson is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. He studied at Uppsala University between 1840-45 obtaining a DSc. On 30 September 1851 he accompanied the Swedish expedition as botanist aboard the frigate HSwMS Eugenie, sailing from Karlskrona under the command of Captain Christian Adolf Virgin (1797-1870), on the first Swedish circumnavigation, calling at Honolulu, Tahiti, San Francisco, Sydney and Manila, various South American ports, the Galapagos, Hong Kong and Singapore. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nils Johan Andersson is the 641st most popular biologist (down from 620th in 2019), the 559th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 617th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nils Johan Andersson ranks 641 out of 1,097. Before him are Philip Barker-Webb, August von Pelzeln, Roberto de Visiani, Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt, William John Burchell, and Aylmer Bourke Lambert. After him are Johan Peter Falk, Johann Julius Walbaum, Karl Rudolphi, Daniel Oliver, Georg Dionysius Ehret, and Ignaz Schiffermüller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1821, Nils Johan Andersson ranks 71. Before him are Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, Leopold III, Prince of Lippe, Georgi Sava Rakovski, John Abbott, James Longstreet, and Carl Bolle. After him are Antonio Ciseri, Nikolai Zaremba, Apollon Maykov, Archduke Friedrich of Austria, Janko Matúška, and Friedrich Kiel. Among people deceased in 1880, Nils Johan Andersson ranks 48. Before him are Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Edwin Drake, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, Manuel Montt, Nikolay Zinin, and Peter Wilhelm Lund. After him are Christian August Friedrich Peters, Izmail Sreznevsky, Thomas Bell, Cándido Bareiro, Sabin Berthelot, and Martin Gropius.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Nils Johan Andersson ranks 559 out of 1,879. Before him are Ricky Bruch (1946), Lennart Bergelin (1925), Björn Skifs (1947), Bengt Danielsson (1921), Allan Pettersson (1911), and Alexander Bard (1961). After him are Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken (1626), Reino Börjesson (1929), Karl Rudolphi (1771), Bernhard Britz (1906), Anders Dahl (1751), and Torsten Hägerstrand (1916).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Nils Johan Andersson ranks 25. Before him are Peter Artedi (1705), Pehr Kalm (1716), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), Johan Andreas Murray (1740), Charles De Geer (1720), and Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898). After him are Karl Rudolphi (1771), Anders Dahl (1751), Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743), Carl Skottsberg (1880), Astrid Cleve (1875), and Jacob Bjerknes (1897).

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