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Olof Swartz

1760 - 1818

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Olof Peter Swartz (21 September 1760 – 19 September 1818) was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He is best known for his taxonomic work and studies into pteridophytes, but also studied orchids, mosses and lichens. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Olof Swartz is the 367th most popular biologist (up from 432nd in 2019), the 331st most popular biography from Sweden (up from 430th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Olof Swartz ranks 367 out of 1,097. Before him are Humberto Maturana, Fritz Müller, Antoine Béchamp, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Pierre Edmond Boissier, and Jean René Constant Quoy. After him are Joel Asaph Allen, Charles Plumier, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Otto Kuntze, August Batsch, and David Douglas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Olof Swartz ranks 21. Before him are August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Jean-François Le Sueur, John Breckinridge, Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen, and Aloysia Weber. After him are Johann Peter Hebel, Christian Kramp, Constantine Ypsilantis, Leandro Fernández de Moratín, Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau, and Georg Franz Hoffmann. Among people deceased in 1818, Olof Swartz ranks 24. Before him are Leopold Koželuch, Warren Hastings, Paul Revere, Marcello Bacciarelli, Caspar Wessel, and Johann Nikolaus Forkel. After him are Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Marie-Gabrielle Capet, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Herman Willem Daendels, Nicolas Isouard, and Matvei Platov.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Olof Swartz ranks 331 out of 1,879. Before him are John, Duke of Östergötland (1589), Lennart Skoglund (1929), Ronnie Hellström (1949), Sven Nordqvist (1946), Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1540), and Thomas Ravelli (1959). After him are Anne Sofie von Otter (1955), Pernilla August (1958), Lars Lagerbäck (1948), Alf Sjöberg (1903), Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654), and Sigrid of Sweden (1566).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Olof Swartz ranks 16. Before him are Anders Sparrman (1748), Eva Ekeblad (1724), Jacob Georg Agardh (1813), Erik Acharius (1757), Carl Alexander Clerck (1710), and Daniel Solander (1733). After him are Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801), Göran Wahlenberg (1780), Peter Artedi (1705), Pehr Kalm (1716), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), and Johan Andreas Murray (1740).

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