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Augustin Saint-Hilaire

1779 - 1853

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Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire (4 October 1779 – 3 September 1853) was French botanist and traveller who was born and died in Orléans, France. A keen observer, he is credited with important discoveries in botany, notably the direction of the radicle in the embryo sac and the double point of attachment of certain ovules. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Augustin Saint-Hilaire has received more than 31,352 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Augustin Saint-Hilaire is the 608th most popular biologist (up from 616th in 2019), the 3,875th most popular biography from France (down from 3,554th in 2019) and the 86th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Augustin Saint-Hilaire ranks 608 out of 841Before him are Pier Andrea Saccardo, Franz Steindachner, Michele Tenore, Charles Wyville Thomson, Theodore Gill, and Everard Home. After him are William Henry Hudson, Otto Bütschli, Tommaso Salvadori, Salomon Müller, William John Burchell, and Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1779, Augustin Saint-Hilaire ranks 28Before him are Jean Coralli, Francis Scott Key, Filippo Paulucci, Johann Schweigger, Ali-Morad Khan Zand, and Tabitha Babbitt. After him are Mountstuart Elphinstone, Washington Allston, Louis de Freycinet, Joel Roberts Poinsett, Peter Mark Roget, and Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough. Among people deceased in 1853, Augustin Saint-Hilaire ranks 43Before him are Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, Maria Quitéria, Tabitha Babbitt, Sarah Goodridge, Cesare Balbo, and William Beaumont. After him are Abigail Fillmore, Lucas Alamán, Andrés Narvarte, Hugh Edwin Strickland, Josef Ludwig von Armansperg, and Manuel María Lombardini.

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In France

Among people born in France, Augustin Saint-Hilaire ranks 3,875 out of 6,011Before him are Tristan Murail (1947), François Fournier-Sarlovèze (1773), Bacary Sagna (1983), Maurice Farman (1877), Louis Diémer (1843), and Hans van den Broek (1936). After him are Samuel ibn Tibbon (1150), Claude Nougaro (1929), Francis Blanche (1921), Guy Patin (1601), Maurice Boitel (1919), and Paul Rivet (1876).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Augustin Saint-Hilaire ranks 86Before him are Paul Bert (1833), Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (1839), Achille Richard (1794), Émile Duclaux (1840), Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813), and Marie Jules César Savigny (1777). After him are Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804), Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835), Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799), Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759), Adrien René Franchet (1834), and Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855).