BIOLOGIST

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

1772 - 1844

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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (French pronunciation: [etjɛn ʒɔfʁwa sɛ̃t‿ilɛʁ]; 15 April 1772 – 19 June 1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories. Geoffroy's scientific views had a transcendental flavor (unlike Lamarck's materialistic views) and were similar to those of German morphologists like Lorenz Oken. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire has received more than 250,690 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire is the 88th most popular biologist (down from 81st in 2019), the 909th most popular biography from France (up from 912th in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Biologist.

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire is most famous for his contributions to comparative anatomy and the theory of recapitulation.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 88 out of 1,097. Before him are Archibald Hill, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Werner Arber, Stanley B. Prusiner, and Ralph M. Steinman. After him are Erasmus Darwin, Aaron Ciechanover, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Philip Sclater, Hermann Joseph Muller, and John B. Calhoun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1772, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 11. Before him are Friedrich Schlegel, Nachman of Breslov, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Ram Mohan Roy. After him are Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, Henri de la Rochejaquelein, Marie Anne Lenormand, Tarrare, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, and Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia. Among people deceased in 1844, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 10. Before him are Joseph Bonaparte, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Ivan Krylov, and Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Charles Nodier, Flora Tristan, Ching Shih, Jernej Kopitar, Henri Gatien Bertrand, and Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 909 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Claude Killy (1943), Claude Lelouch (1937), Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657), Joan the Lame (1293), René Clément (1913), and Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy (1143). After him are Claude Chappe (1763), Jean Anouilh (1910), Jean-Pierre Sauvage (1944), Stéphane Audran (1932), Antoine Galland (1646), and Ivo of Kermartin (1253).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 16. Before him are Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), François Jacob (1920), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656). After him are Jean Dausset (1916), Aimé Bonpland (1773), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Michel Adanson (1727), and Pierre André Latreille (1762).

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