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BIOLOGIST

Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart

1801 - 1876

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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (French: [adɔlf teodɔːʁ bʁɔ̃ɲaːʁ]) FRS FRSE FGS (14 January 1801 – 18 February 1876) was a French botanist. He was the son of the geologist Alexandre Brongniart and grandson of the architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. Brongniart's pioneering work on the relationships between extinct and existing plants has earned him the title of father of paleobotany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart has received more than 24,427 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart is the 277th most popular biologist (up from 295th in 2019), the 2,449th most popular biography from France (down from 2,430th in 2019) and the 37th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart ranks 277 out of 841Before him are Erich von Tschermak, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Valerius Cordus, Carl Hagenbeck, Arthur Tansley, and Thomas Cavalier-Smith. After him are Jacob Christian Schäffer, Alexander von Middendorff, Marie Stopes, Johann Bauhin, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, and Johann Friedrich von Brandt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart ranks 37Before him are David Farragut, Richard Parkes Bonington, Hippolyte Bayard, Justo José de Urquiza, Fredrika Bremer, and Jean-Baptiste Boussingault. After him are Salvadore Cammarano, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Johann Nestroy, Armand Trousseau, Émile Littré, and Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza. Among people deceased in 1876, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart ranks 28Before him are Duchess Caroline Mariane of Mecklenburg, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, George Smith, Friedrich Christian Diez, Eugène Fromentin, and Harriet Martineau. After him are Philipp Mainländer, Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, Aleksander Fredro, Manuel Blanco Encalada, and Karl Eichwald.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart ranks 2,449 out of 6,011Before him are Brigitte Lahaie (1955), Françoise Dolto (1908), Antoine-Louis Barye (1795), Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1637), Françoise Bettencourt Meyers (1953), and Émile Cohl (1857). After him are Claude-Michel Schönberg (1944), Emanuel Ungaro (1933), Louise Henriette de Bourbon (1726), Michel Marcel Navratil (1908), Cécile Aubry (1928), and Pierre Pflimlin (1907).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart ranks 37Before him are Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Johann Hermann (1738), René Lesson (1794), Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), and Alain Bombard (1924). After him are René Louiche Desfontaines (1750), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), Charles Plumier (1646), Guillaume Rondelet (1507), Philibert Commerson (1727), and Charles Chamberland (1851).