BIOLOGIST

Alfred Grandidier

1836 - 1921

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Alfred Grandidier (20 December 1836 – 13 September 1921) was a French naturalist and explorer. From a very wealthy family, at the age of 20, he and his brother, Ernest Grandidier (1833–1912), undertook a voyage around the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Grandidier has received more than 34,826 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Grandidier is the 448th most popular biologist (down from 436th in 2019), the 3,333rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,242nd in 2019) and the 57th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alfred Grandidier ranks 448 out of 1,097Before him are Edward Daniel Clarke, Heinrich Boie, Zhores Medvedev, Luther Burbank, Heinrich Schrader, and Friedrich Boie. After him are Heinrich Kuhl, Georg August Goldfuss, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Francisco J. Ayala, Gabriel Bibron, and Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Alfred Grandidier ranks 51Before him are Princess Anna of Saxony, Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, Nakayama Yoshiko, Máximo Gómez, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and Camillo Boito. After him are Giuseppe Abbati, Edward Poynter, Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg, Cirilo Antonio Rivarola, Walery Antoni Wróblewski, and Ernst von Bergmann. Among people deceased in 1921, Alfred Grandidier ranks 75Before him are Pierre Cuypers, Alexander Dutov, Sherburne Wesley Burnham, William Speirs Bruce, Mirza Kuchik Khan, and Isidor Kaufmann. After him are Franz Defregger, Gabriela Zapolska, Déodat de Séverac, Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, Andrea Carlo Ferrari, and August Nilsson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alfred Grandidier ranks 3,333 out of 6,770Before him are Jorge Chávez (1887), Bernard Giraudeau (1947), André Caplet (1878), André Cardinal Destouches (1672), Sylvain Wiltord (1974), and Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754). After him are Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718), Charles de La Fosse (1636), Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845), John Francis Regis (1597), Claude Pompidou (1912), and Christian Marin (1929).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Alfred Grandidier ranks 57Before him are Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797), Guillaume Rondelet (1507), Lucien Quélet (1832), Frédéric Cuvier (1773), Alain Bombard (1924), and Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (1770). After him are Gabriel Bibron (1805), Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716), André Marie Constant Duméril (1774), Camille Guérin (1872), Henri Ernest Baillon (1827), and Matthias de l'Obel (1538).