BIOLOGIST

Adelbert von Chamisso

1781 - 1838

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Adelbert von Chamisso (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdl̩bɛʁt fɔn ʃaˈmɪso]; 30 January 1781 – 21 August 1838) was a German poet, writer and botanist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adelbert von Chamisso has received more than 162,987 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Adelbert von Chamisso is the 62nd most popular biologist (down from 54th in 2019), the 758th most popular biography from France (down from 712th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Biologist.

Adelbert von Chamisso is most famous for his book, "Peter Schlemihl," which tells the story of a man who sells his shadow to the devil.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Adelbert von Chamisso ranks 62 out of 1,097Before him are Hugo de Vries, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Daniel Bovet, John Edward Gray, Nikolai Vavilov, and George Beadle. After him are Trofim Lysenko, Irwin Rose, Linda B. Buck, André Michel Lwoff, August Weismann, and Ulisse Aldrovandi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Adelbert von Chamisso ranks 9Before him are Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, Bernard Bolzano, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, René Laennec, Siméon Denis Poisson, and Stamford Raffles. After him are William I of Württemberg, Anton Diabelli, Achim von Arnim, Frederica of Baden, David Brewster, and Joseph Karl Stieler. Among people deceased in 1838, Adelbert von Chamisso ranks 3Before him are Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, and Lorenzo Da Ponte. After him are Johanna Schopenhauer, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Bernard Courtois, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Pierre Louis Dulong, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Ferdinand Ries, and Bernhard Crusell.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adelbert von Chamisso ranks 758 out of 6,770Before him are Robert Doisneau (1912), Joan II of Navarre (1311), Marie Laforêt (1939), Girard Desargues (1591), Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646), and Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763). After him are Charles-François Daubigny (1817), Thomas Bangalter (1), Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (1279), Juliette Gréco (1927), Fanny Ardant (1949), and René Coty (1882).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Adelbert von Chamisso ranks 12Before him are Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Roger Guillemin (1924), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), and François Jacob (1920). After him are André Michel Lwoff (1902), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Jean Dausset (1916), and Aimé Bonpland (1773).