BIOLOGIST

Armand David

1826 - 1900

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Armand David, CM (7 September 1826, Espelette – 10 November 1900, Paris) was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist from the French Basque Country. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Armand David has received more than 81,979 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Armand David is the 185th most popular biologist (down from 126th in 2019), the 1,595th most popular biography from France (down from 1,256th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Biologist.

Armand David was a French missionary and naturalist who traveled to China in the late 1800s. He is most famous for his discovery of the giant panda, which he named Ailuropoda melanoleuca.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Armand David ranks 185 out of 1,097Before him are Theodor Escherich, Anna Atkins, George Robert Gray, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Peter Medawar, and Stephen Jay Gould. After him are Jeffrey C. Hall, Ian Wilmut, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Eva Ekeblad, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, and Daniel Nathans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Armand David ranks 13Before him are Ludwig Minkus, Stanislao Cannizzaro, Frederic Edwin Church, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, and Alexander Afanasyev. After him are Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Zénobe Gramme, Adolf Bastian, George B. McClellan, Karl von Piloty, and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia. Among people deceased in 1900, Armand David ranks 27Before him are Isaac Levitan, Francis, Duke of Teck, François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Birsa Munda, and Kuroda Kiyotaka. After him are Samori Ture, Princess Josephine of Baden, Joseph Bertrand, Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg, and Zdeněk Fibich.

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In France

Among people born in France, Armand David ranks 1,595 out of 6,770Before him are Séraphine Louis (1864), Marie-Christine Barrault (1944), Émile Chartier (1868), Pierre Varignon (1654), Claude Françoise de Lorraine (1612), and Mahaut, Countess of Artois (1269). After him are Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714), Philippa of Hainault (1314), Pierre Mendès France (1907), Patrick Dewaere (1947), André de Montbard (1103), and Marcel Renault (1872).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Armand David ranks 24Before him are Aimé Bonpland (1773), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Michel Adanson (1727), Pierre André Latreille (1762), and Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756). After him are Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Pierre Belon (1517), Antoine Béchamp (1816), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), and Jérôme Lejeune (1926).