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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 50,798 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest is the 253rd most popular biologist (up from 273rd in 2019), the 2,258th most popular biography from France (up from 2,316th in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest ranks 253 out of 841. Before him are George Shaw, Carl Correns, Rupert Sheldrake, David Julius, August Grisebach, and David Bruce. After him are Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, James Edward Smith, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Hermann Schlegel, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, and Johann Hermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest ranks 26. Before him are Moses Montefiore, Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Dionisio Aguado y García, Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, and Thomas Robert Bugeaud. After him are George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, George Onslow, Fructuoso Rivera, Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria, and François-Joseph Fétis. Among people deceased in 1838, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest ranks 14. Before him are Johanna Schopenhauer, Ferdinand Ries, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Bernard Courtois, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, and Bernhard Crusell. After him are Charles Percier, René Caillié, Black Hawk, Heinrich Marx, José Bonifácio de Andrada, and Joseph Lancaster.

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In France

Among people born in France, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest ranks 2,258 out of 6,011. Before him are Jules Breton (1827), Louis Trousselier (1881), Oronce Finé (1494), Alexandre Astruc (1923), Thomas Robert Bugeaud (1784), and Bruno Metsu (1954). After him are Maximilien Luce (1858), Thomas Piketty (1971), Michel Leiris (1901), Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (1727), Auguste Charlois (1864), and Nominoe (800).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest ranks 31. Before him are Pierre André Latreille (1762), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), Pierre Belon (1517), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), and Félix d'Herelle (1873). After him are Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Johann Hermann (1738), René Lesson (1794), Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), Alain Bombard (1924), and Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801).

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