BIOLOGIST

Adrien René Franchet

1834 - 1900

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Adrien René Franchet (21 April 1834 in Pezou – 15 February 1900 in Paris) was a French botanist, based at the Paris Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. He is noted for his extensive work describing the flora of China and Japan, based on the collections made by French Catholic missionaries in China, Armand David, Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, Paul Guillaume Farges, Jean-André Soulié, and others. He was the taxonomic author of many plants, including a significant number of species from the genera Primula and Rhododendron. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adrien René Franchet has received more than 18,820 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Adrien René Franchet is the 634th most popular biologist (up from 640th in 2019), the 4,064th most popular biography from France (down from 3,943rd in 2019) and the 90th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Adrien René Franchet ranks 634 out of 1,097. Before him are Émile Duclaux, Adam Lonicer, Carl-Gustaf Rossby, René Maire, Edmund Beecher Wilson, and Ludwik Hirszfeld. After him are Nikolay Drozdov, Volcher Coiter, Anna Russell, Michel Félix Dunal, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, and William Withering.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Adrien René Franchet ranks 67. Before him are Todor Burmov, Joachim III of Constantinople, Julius Reubke, Lyuben Karavelov, John Wesley Powell, and Herman Snellen. After him are Petter Adolf Karsten, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Edmond Laguerre, Felix Dahn, Friedrich Tietjen, and Vilém Blodek. Among people deceased in 1900, Adrien René Franchet ranks 73. Before him are Karl Doppler, Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, Gustaf Åkerhielm, and James Edward Keeler. After him are Johan Kjeldahl, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Albert Samain, Émile Blanchard, Dankmar Adler, and Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adrien René Franchet ranks 4,064 out of 6,770. Before him are Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), André Wilms (1947), Dominique Lavanant (1944), Auguste de Montferrand (1786), Ernest Hébert (1817), and Benoîte Groult (1920). After him are Henri Dutrochet (1776), Frédéric Vasseur (1968), Gervase of Tilbury (1155), Lucas Hernandez (1996), José Bové (1953), and Eugène Flachat (1802).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Adrien René Franchet ranks 90. Before him are Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856), Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855), Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810), Jean Victoir Audouin (1797), Émile Duclaux (1840), and René Maire (1878). After him are Michel Félix Dunal (1789), Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835), Élie-Abel Carrière (1818), Jean René Constant Quoy (1790), Bernard Heuvelmans (1916), and Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793).

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