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Otto Wilhelm Thomé

1840 - 1925

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Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840–1925) was a German botanist and botanical artist from Cologne, best known for his compendium of botanical illustrations Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz in Wort und Bild für Schule und Haus (Flora of Germany, Austria and Switzerland in Word and Picture for School and Home), the first of 4 volumes with a total of 572 botanical illustrations, published in 1885 in Gera, Germany. Another 8 volumes were added to the set by Walter Migula with the republication in 1903. From 1897 to 1899, he was the Headmaster of the Business School Cologne. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Wilhelm Thomé is the 481st most popular biologist (up from 487th in 2019), the 3,076th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,538th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Otto Wilhelm Thomé ranks 481 out of 1,097. Before him are Akira Endo, John Hughlings Jackson, Heinrich Schrader, W. D. Hamilton, Robert Sapolsky, and Georg Franz Hoffmann. After him are Lucien Quélet, Ivan Regen, Benedykt Dybowski, Lorenz Heister, Carl Chun, and Johannes Thiele.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Otto Wilhelm Thomé ranks 46. Before him are José Manuel Balmaceda, Marie Bracquemond, Charles Booth, Akaki Tsereteli, Édouard André, and Alexander Kovalevsky. After him are Gabriel von Max, Dmitry Pisarev, Abraham Goldfaden, Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, Edmond Audran, and Jeanna Bauck. Among people deceased in 1925, Otto Wilhelm Thomé ranks 81. Before him are Charles Mangin, Yevgenia Bosch, Antonio Maura, Grigory Kotovsky, Francis Darwin, and Bajram Curri. After him are André Caplet, Ephraim Moses Lilien, Georg August Schweinfurth, Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg, Julian Marchlewski, and Princess Therese of Bavaria.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Wilhelm Thomé ranks 3,078 out of 7,253. Before him are Werner March (1894), Karl Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1754), Heinrich Marx (1777), Georg Franz Hoffmann (1760), Richard Dehmel (1863), and Friedrich Sixt von Armin (1851). After him are Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Adolf Erman (1854), John I, Duke of Saxony (1249), Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772), and Helmut Jahn (1940).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Otto Wilhelm Thomé ranks 92. Before him are Franz von Paula Schrank (1747), Ernst Hartert (1859), Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665), Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (1782), Heinrich Schrader (1767), and Georg Franz Hoffmann (1760). After him are Lorenz Heister (1683), Carl Chun (1852), Salomon Müller (1804), Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834), Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809), and Johann Jakob Heckel (1790).

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