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Robert Swinhoe

1836 - 1877

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Robert Swinhoe FRS (1 September 1836 – 28 October 1877) was an English diplomat and naturalist who worked as a Consul in Qing-era Taiwan (then known to Westerners as Formosa). He catalogued many Southeast Asian birds, and several, such as Swinhoe's pheasant, are named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Swinhoe is the 680th most popular biologist (down from 666th in 2019), the 543rd most popular biography from India (up from 569th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert Swinhoe ranks 680 out of 1,097. Before him are Nikolai Turczaninow, Johann Heinrich Blasius, Axel Gudbrand Blytt, Johannes Müller Argoviensis, Walter Sutton, and Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter. After him are John Sims, Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, John Isaac Briquet, Gustav Radde, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, and Albert Charles Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Robert Swinhoe ranks 64. Before him are Walery Antoni Wróblewski, Camillo Boito, Harry Rosenbusch, Alfred Grandidier, Ernst von Bergmann, and W. S. Gilbert. After him are Bret Harte, Michał Elwiro Andriolli, John W. Foster, Émile Étienne Guimet, Ferdinand Monoyer, and Jay Gould. Among people deceased in 1877, Robert Swinhoe ranks 50. Before him are Alexander Bain, Julius Rietz, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Wilhelm Hofmeister, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, and Janko Matúška. After him are Georg Adolf Erman, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, Karel Sabina, Caroline Unger, Juan Bautista Gill, and Nathaniel Palmer.

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In India

Among people born in India, Robert Swinhoe ranks 543 out of 1,861. Before him are Anna Kashfi (1934), Prince Vijaya (-543), Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842), Aruna Asaf Ali (1909), Vichitravirya (null), and Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850). After him are Asrani (1940), Lobsang Sangay (1968), Arundhati Roy (1961), Sanjeev Kumar (1938), Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898), and Arvind Krishna (1962).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In India

Among biologists born in India, Robert Swinhoe ranks 3. Before him are Janaki Ammal (1897), and Salim Ali (1896). After him are Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914), and Sunetra Gupta (1965).

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