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Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur

1799 - 1878

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Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (February 18, 1799 – May 27, 1878) was a German-Austrian pharmacist and botanist born in Königsberg. He obtained his education in Königsberg and Berlin, later serving as a director of a chemical factory in Liesing (Vienna). Following a stint as a school teacher in Kronstadt (1853–54), he worked as a private scientist in Vienna (1854–70), Brunn and Bielitz. Schur was author of the highly regarded Enumeratio plantarum Transsilvaniae, a work that was a result of nine years of botanical research in Transylvania. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur is the 469th most popular biologist (up from 523rd in 2019), the 987th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,340th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Russian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur ranks 469 out of 1,097. Before him are Luther Burbank, Marie Stopes, Alain Bombard, William T. Stearn, Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, and Richard Lydekker. After him are Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Salim Ali, Sewall Wright, Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey, Julius von Sachs, and Akira Endo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur ranks 29. Before him are Vincenz Priessnitz, David Douglas, Ignaz von Döllinger, Duchess Amelia of Württemberg, Countess of Ségur, and Ludwig Rellstab. After him are Jedediah Smith, Ferdinand Reich, Henri Druey, Tanaka Hisashige, François-Auguste Biard, and Jean Baptiste Boisduval. Among people deceased in 1878, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur ranks 38. Before him are Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao, Karl Gutzkow, Đura Jakšić, Maurice Joly, Josip Runjanin, and Anna Sewell. After him are August Heinrich Petermann, Crawford Long, Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Temistocle Solera, Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, and George Cruikshank.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur ranks 987 out of 3,761. Before him are Galina Ustvolskaya (1919), Edison Denisov (1929), Tamara Toumanova (1919), Patriarch Job of Moscow (1525), Pavel Durov (1984), and Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia (1891). After him are Mikhail Boyarsky (1949), Buvaisar Saitiev (1975), Yevgeny Khrunov (1933), Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800), Andrei Bubnov (1883), and Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur ranks 12. Before him are Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), and Edwin Klebs (1834). After him are Vladimir Demikhov (1916), Dmitry Belyayev (1917), Franz Meyen (1804), Kliment Timiryazev (1843), Fritz Schaudinn (1871), and Victor Motschulsky (1810).

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