BIOLOGIST

Otto Bütschli

1848 - 1920

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Johann Adam Otto Bütschli (3 May 1848 – 2 February 1920) was a German zoologist and professor at the University of Heidelberg. He specialized in invertebrates and insect development. Many of the groups of protists were first recognized by him. He was the first scientist to recognize the structures now known as chromosomes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Bütschli is the 900th most popular biologist (down from 897th in 2019), the 4,817th most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,095th in 2019) and the 179th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Otto Bütschli ranks 900 out of 1,097. Before him are Hugh Edwin Strickland, Benjamin Smith Barton, Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, Ángel Cabrera, Alfred G. Knudson, and Marmaduke Tunstall. After him are Johannes Schmidt, Christian Friedrich Ecklon, Palisot de Beauvois, Sereno Watson, Louis Fraser, and Joseph Banks Rhine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Otto Bütschli ranks 101. Before him are Oskar Lenz, William Frederick Denning, Grant Allen, Josef Václav Myslbek, Jean Aicard, and Helene Lange. After him are Waldemar Rosenberger, Helen Allingham, Bernard Bosanquet, George Romanes, Raimundo Fernández-Villaverde, and Amos Burn. Among people deceased in 1920, Otto Bütschli ranks 110. Before him are Aleksey Shakhmatov, Panas Myrny, William de Wiveleslie Abney, Ion Dragoumis, William Dean Howells, and Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez. After him are Georgios Papasideris, Hermann Oldenberg, Horatio Caro, Mary Katharine Brandegee, Albert Zürner, and Robert Harron.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Bütschli ranks 4,820 out of 7,253. Before him are Ulf Timmermann (1962), Paul Peter Ewald (1888), Christiane Nord (1943), Rudolf Harbig (1913), Franz Dienert (1900), and Nikolaus Pevsner (1902). After him are Karl Knies (1821), Charles Régnier (1914), Wolfgang Paul (1940), Julius Curtius (1877), Aleksandra Khokhlova (1897), and Hubert Hahne (1935).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Otto Bütschli ranks 179. Before him are Ernst Ahl (1898), Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller (1862), Hermann Harms (1870), Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus (1835), Jakob Emanuel Lange (1864), and Johann August Ephraim Goeze (1731). After him are Carl H. Eigenmann (1863), Johann Christoph Wendland (1755), Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764), Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808), Curt Backeberg (1894), and Tilly Edinger (1897).

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