BIOLOGIST

Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest

1784 - 1838

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Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (6 March 1784 – 4 June 1838) was a French zoologist and author. He was the son of Nicolas Desmarest and father of Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest. Desmarest was a disciple of Georges Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart, and in 1815, he succeeded Pierre André Latreille to the professorship of zoology at the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest has received more than 50,264 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest is the 290th most popular biologist (down from 252nd in 2019), the 2,397th most popular biography from France (down from 2,251st in 2019) and the 34th most popular French Biologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Over the past year Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest has had the most page views in the with 5,813 views, followed by Spanish (1,549), and German (904). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are West Frisian (101.85%), Belarusian (86.76%), and Simple English (77.78%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest ranks 290 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, Martin Vahl, Josif Pančić, Hieronymus Bock, and Rudolf Weigl. After him are Johann Hermann, Carl Hagenbeck, Leopold Fitzinger, Otto Brunfels, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, and Carl Nägeli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest ranks 29. Before him are Fructuoso Rivera, Dionisio Aguado y García, François-Joseph Fétis, Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, and Sándor Kőrösi Csoma. After him are William Buckland, George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Duke George of Oldenburg, Denis Davydov, George Onslow, and Juan Antonio Lavalleja. Among people deceased in 1838, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest ranks 16. Before him are Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Ferdinand Ries, Bernhard Crusell, Hussein Dey, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, and René Caillié. After him are Heinrich Marx, José Bonifácio de Andrada, Black Hawk, Joseph Lancaster, Frédéric Cuvier, and Charles Percier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest ranks 2,397 out of 6,770. Before him are Juliette Mayniel (1936), Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725), Dominique Vandamme (1770), Claude Bolling (1930), Jules Perrot (1810), and Marcel Dalio (1899). After him are Paul Féval, père (1816), Johann Hermann (1738), Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinate (1652), Urbain Grandier (1590), Charles Munch (1891), and Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1757).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest ranks 34. Before him are Antoine Béchamp (1816), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756), René Louiche Desfontaines (1750), and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777). After him are Johann Hermann (1738), Félix d'Herelle (1873), Charles Plumier (1646), Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801), Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805), and Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752).

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