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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Armand David has received more than 77,806 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Armand David is the 127th most popular biologist (down from 119th in 2019), the 1,260th most popular biography from France (up from 1,266th in 2019) and the 20th 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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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Armand David ranks 127 out of 841. Before him are Har Gobind Khorana, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Rudolf Weigl, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Georg Wilhelm Steller, and Ralph M. Steinman. After him are Gaspard Bauhin, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Aimé Bonpland, Martin Evans, Edward B. Lewis, and Carl Woese.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1826, Armand David ranks 10. Before him are Gustave Moreau, Charles XV of Sweden, Ludwig Minkus, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, and Stanislao Cannizzaro. After him are Zénobe Gramme, Frederic Edwin Church, Alexander Afanasyev, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. Among people deceased in 1900, Armand David ranks 21. Before him are Isaac Levitan, Stephen Crane, Francis, Duke of Teck, Mary Kingsley, Emil Škoda, and Osman Nuri Pasha. After him are Princess Josephine of Baden, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, Frederic Edwin Church, Naim Frashëri, and Birsa Munda.

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In France

Among people born in France, Armand David ranks 1,260 out of 6,011. Before him are Odilo of Cluny (961), Gundobad (500), Heinrich Kramer (1430), Mistinguett (1875), Philippa of Hainault (1314), and Livilla (-13). After him are Renata of Lorraine (1544), Claude, Duke of Guise (1496), François Cluzet (1955), Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger (1894), Albert Calmette (1863), and Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Armand David ranks 20. Before him are Jean Dausset (1916), Carolus Clusius (1525), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), and Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737). After him are Aimé Bonpland (1773), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Antoine Béchamp (1816), Michel Adanson (1727), Pierre André Latreille (1762), and Jérôme Lejeune (1926).

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