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Petter Adolf Karsten

1834 - 1917

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Petter Adolf Karsten (16 February 1834 – 22 March 1917) was a Finnish mycologist, the foremost expert on the fungi of Finland in his day, and known in consequence as the "father of Finnish mycology". Karsten was born in Merimasku near Turku, studied at the University of Helsinki, and then moved to the inland of Tammela, where he spent most of his life with teaching botany and doing research at the Mustiala Agriculture Institute (now the Faculty of Agriculture of the HAMK University of Applied Sciences). He amassed a vast collection, both by his own efforts and those of his correspondents, and named about 200 new genera and 2,000 new species. Between 1861 and 1870 Karsten edited the exsiccata series Fungi Fenniae exsiccati. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Petter Adolf Karsten is the 523rd most popular biologist (up from 645th in 2024), the 142nd most popular biography from Finland (up from 233rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Finnish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Petter Adolf Karsten ranks 523 out of 1,097. Before him are François Marie Daudin, Johan Andreas Murray, Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Charles Chamberland, and Kaspar Maria von Sternberg. After him are Jacques Loeb, Johann Bauhin, Georg August Schweinfurth, Sébastien Vaillant, Eduard August von Regel, and Franz Meyen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Petter Adolf Karsten ranks 53. Before him are Adolph Frank, Serafino Vannutelli, Ewald Hering, Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Princess Marie of Baden, and Peter Benoit. After him are Julius Reubke, Hugo Schiff, Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Piet Joubert, Albert Niemann, and John Gilbert Baker. Among people deceased in 1917, Petter Adolf Karsten ranks 69. Before him are Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Frank Muller, Ber Borochov, Andrew Taylor Still, Maksim Bahdanovič, and Madge Syers. After him are Anton Haus, Boris Stürmer, Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Titu Maiorescu, Yi Jun-yong, and Édouard Drumont.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Petter Adolf Karsten ranks 142 out of 751. Before him are Lydia Wideman (1920), Paavo Aaltonen (1919), Antti Rinne (1962), Emil Väre (1885), Aimo Lahti (1896), and Jörn Donner (1933). After him are Mari Kiviniemi (1968), Hugo Österman (1892), Timo Salonen (1951), Taina Elg (1930), Juho Vennola (1872), and Leo Kinnunen (1943).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Finland

Among biologists born in Finland, Petter Adolf Karsten ranks 4. Before him are Peter Forsskål (1732), Alexander von Nordmann (1803), and Christian von Steven (1781). After him are Ilkka Hanski (1953).

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