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Pieter Willem Korthals

1807 - 1892

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Pieter Willem Korthals (September 1, 1807, Amsterdam – March 1892, Haarlem) was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836. Among his many discoveries was the medicinal plant Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa).: 59  Korthals wrote the first monograph on the tropical pitcher plants, "Over het geslacht Nepenthes", published in 1839. Carl Ludwig Blume named the botanical genus Korthalsia (family Arecaceae) after Korthals, and Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem introduced the genus name Korthalsella (family Santalaceae) in his honor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pieter Willem Korthals is the 610th most popular biologist (up from 979th in 2019), the 569th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 963rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Dutch Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Pieter Willem Korthals ranks 610 out of 1,097. Before him are Jon E. Ahlquist, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, Jules Émile Planchon, Adrien René Franchet, Émile Duclaux, and Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper. After him are Fritz Schaudinn, Franz Steindachner, Émile Oustalet, Carl Bernhard von Trinius, Imre Frivaldszky, and Charles Walter De Vis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Pieter Willem Korthals ranks 33. Before him are Adrien-François Servais, Napoléon Henri Reber, Thiệu Trị, Robert Blum, Joseph Decaisne, and Jane Digby. After him are Auguste Laurent, Théophile Thoré-Bürger, Emily Donelson, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Barbu Catargiu, and Franz Xaver Fieber. Among people deceased in 1892, Pieter Willem Korthals ranks 56. Before him are Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, Constantin von Alvensleben, Eduard August von Regel, Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet, Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, and Caroline Harrison. After him are György Klapka, James B. Francis, Albert Aurier, Friedrich von Bodenstedt, Robert Ford, and Johann Eduard Erdmann.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Pieter Willem Korthals ranks 569 out of 1,646. Before him are Evert van Aelst (1602), Willem Frederik Hermans (1921), Bertus Aafjes (1914), Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech (1591), Maruschka Detmers (1962), and Bartholomeus Breenbergh (1598). After him are Richard Witschge (1969), Menno van Coehoorn (1641), Barry Hulshoff (1946), Hakim Ziyech (1993), Elly Ameling (1933), and Kea Bouman (1903).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Netherlands

Among biologists born in Netherlands, Pieter Willem Korthals ranks 14. Before him are Martinus Beijerinck (1851), Pieter Boddaert (1730), Nicolaas Laurens Burman (1734), Pieter Bleeker (1819), Wilhem de Haan (1801), and George Clifford III (1685). After him are Volcher Coiter (1534), Johannes Burman (1707), C. B. van Niel (1897), Jan Frederik Gronovius (1686), and Wim Crusio (1954).

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