BIOLOGIST

Antoine Risso

1777 - 1845

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Giuseppe Antonio Risso (8 April 1777 – 25 August 1845), called Antoine Risso, was a naturalist from Nice. Risso was born in the city of Nice in the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published Ichthyologie de Nice (1810), Histoire naturelle de l'Europe méridionale (1826) and Histoire Naturelle des Orangers (1818–1822). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine Risso has received more than 50,035 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Risso is the 591st most popular biologist (up from 685th in 2019), the 3,929th most popular biography from France (up from 4,067th in 2019) and the 80th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Antoine Risso ranks 591 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Gottfried Zinn, Tsuneko Okazaki, João de Loureiro, Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, Garrett Hardin, and Jean-Étienne Guettard. After him are Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Euclides da Cunha, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Erwin Stresemann, Edouard Van Beneden, and Carl Chun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, Antoine Risso ranks 39. Before him are Casimir Pierre Périer, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, Marie Jules César Savigny, Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga, Louis Hersent, and Juan Martín de Pueyrredón. After him are Carlos Anaya, William Martin Leake, Roger B. Taney, Thomas Campbell, John George Children, and Felix Grundy. Among people deceased in 1845, Antoine Risso ranks 30. Before him are Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc, Henrik Steffens, Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau, Gregor MacGregor, Nils Gabriel Sefström, and Wazir Akbar Khan. After him are Elizabeth Fry, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Johnny Appleseed, Matvei Gedenshtrom, Josef Danhauser, and Karl Julius Perleb.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Risso ranks 3,929 out of 6,770. Before him are Émile Coste (1862), Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715), Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve (1756), Wolfgang Windgassen (1914), Henri Decoin (1890), and Peire Cardenal (1180). After him are Marcel Jouhandeau (1888), Samuel ibn Tibbon (1150), Alain Boghossian (1970), André Schwarz-Bart (1928), Michèle Torr (1947), and Raoul Coutard (1924).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Antoine Risso ranks 80. Before him are Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936), Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778), Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1779), Jean de Thévenot (1633), Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan (1814), and Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715). After him are Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800), René Dubos (1901), Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813), Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856), Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855), and Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810).

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