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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 152,821 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Adelbert von Chamisso is the 54th most popular biologist (down from 44th in 2019), the 713th most popular biography from France (down from 654th in 2019) and the 8th 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 54 out of 841. Before him are Robert Edwards, Hans Spemann, Peter Simon Pallas, Nikolai Vavilov, Hugo de Vries, and Vladimir Vernadsky. After him are Jean-Henri Fabre, François Jacob, Erasmus Darwin, Albert Claude, Hugo Theorell, and Stanley B. Prusiner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Adelbert von Chamisso ranks 8. Before him are Eugène de Beauharnais, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, René Laennec, Bernard Bolzano, and Siméon Denis Poisson. After him are Stamford Raffles, Anton Diabelli, Frederica of Baden, David Brewster, Achim von Arnim, and William I of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1838, Adelbert von Chamisso ranks 2. Before him is Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord. After him are Lorenzo Da Ponte, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Pierre Louis Dulong, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Johanna Schopenhauer, Ferdinand Ries, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Bernard Courtois, and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adelbert von Chamisso ranks 713 out of 6,011. Before him are Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1725), Maurice Chevalier (1888), Pierre Loti (1850), Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902), Alexandre Millerand (1859), and François Darlan (1881). After him are Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788), Georges Sorel (1847), Raoul Dufy (1877), Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736), Marin Marais (1656), and Jean Giraud (1938).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Adelbert von Chamisso ranks 8. Before him are Luc Montagnier (1932), Georges Cuvier (1769), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Charles Richet (1850), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), and René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683). After him are Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), and Jean Dausset (1916).

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