BIOLOGIST

Otto Stapf

1857 - 1933

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Otto Stapf FRS (23 April 1857 – 3 August 1933) was an Austrian born botanist and taxonomist, the son of Joseph Stapf, who worked in the Hallstatt salt-mines. He grew up in Hallstatt and later published about the archaeological plant remains from the Late Bronze- and Iron Age mines that had been uncovered by his father. Stapf studied botany in Vienna under Julius Wiesner, where he received his PhD with a dissertation on cristals and cristalloids in plants. 1882 he became assistant professor (Assistent) of Anton Kerner. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Stapf is the 602nd most popular biologist (up from 739th in 2019), the 690th most popular biography from Austria (up from 875th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Austrian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Otto Stapf ranks 602 out of 1,097Before her are Tsuneko Okazaki, John Murray, Francisco J. Ayala, George Clifford III, Ruth Arnon, and Antoine Risso. After her are Władysław Taczanowski, Jon E. Ahlquist, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, Jules Émile Planchon, Adrien René Franchet, and Émile Duclaux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Otto Stapf ranks 94Before her are Joseph Larmor, Gustave Lanson, Friedrich von Ingenohl, Henry Dudeney, Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussia, and Gabriela Zapolska. After her are Shibli Nomani, Knut Ångström, Fergus Suter, James Edward Keeler, Ernst Trygger, and Theodor Curtius. Among people deceased in 1933, Otto Stapf ranks 86Before her are Ion G. Duca, Toktogul Satylganov, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Julius Klengel, Friedrich von Ingenohl, and Gyula Krúdy. After her are Anthony Hope, Robert W. Chambers, Chen Jiongming, Boris Rosing, Arnold Mendelssohn, and Sara Teasdale.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Otto Stapf ranks 690 out of 1,424Before her are Hans Hass (1919), Otto E. Neugebauer (1899), Peter Alexander (1926), Maurice Loewy (1833), Marianne Hainisch (1839), and Ernst Jandl (1925). After her are Günter Brus (1938), Ignaz Schuppanzigh (1776), Alfred Berger (1894), Felix Lichnowsky (1814), Nathan Birnbaum (1864), and Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein (1802).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Austria

Among biologists born in Austria, Otto Stapf ranks 11Before her are Othenio Abel (1875), Joy Adamson (1910), Leopold Fitzinger (1802), Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (1735), Erich von Tschermak (1871), and Clemens von Pirquet (1874). After her are Franz Steindachner (1834), Joseph Rock (1884), Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727), Pál Kitaibel (1757), Josef August Schultes (1773), and Richard Wettstein (1863).