The Most Famous
BIOLOGISTS from Portugal
This page contains a list of the greatest Portuguese Biologists. The pantheon dataset contains 841 Biologists, 2 of which were born in Portugal. This makes Portugal the birth place of the 38th most number of Biologists behind Croatia and Turkey.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Portuguese Biologists of all time. This list of famous Portuguese Biologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. João de Loureiro (1717 - 1791)
With an HPI of 49.08, João de Loureiro is the most famous Portuguese Biologist. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
João de Loureiro (1717, Lisbon – 18 October 1791) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and botanist.
2. Félix de Avelar Brotero (1744 - 1828)
With an HPI of 44.94, Félix de Avelar Brotero is the 2nd most famous Portuguese Biologist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Félix de Avelar Brotero (25 November 1744 – 4 August 1828) was a Portuguese botanist and professor. He fled to France in 1788 to escape persecution by the Portuguese Inquisition, and there published his Compendio de Botanica in order to earn his living. It immediately established his reputation as a botanist, and upon his return to Portugal in 1790 he was given the chair of botany and agriculture at the University of Coimbra. His two best known works, Flora lusitanica, 1804, and Phytographia Lusitaniae selectior, 1816–1827, were the first lengthy descriptions of native Portuguese plants. As director of the botanical gardens at Coimbra (see Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra) and Ajuda (Lisbon), he reorganized and enlarged them.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as biologists born between 1717 and 1744. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased biologists include João de Loureiro and Félix de Avelar Brotero. As of April 2022, 1 new biologists have been added to Pantheon including Félix de Avelar Brotero.
