BIOLOGIST

Bernard Germain de Lacépède

1756 - 1825

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Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède or La Cépède (French: [bɛʁnaʁ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ etjɛn də la vil syʁ‿ijɔ̃ də lasepɛd]; 26 December 1756 – 6 October 1825) was a French naturalist and an active freemason. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernard Germain de Lacépède has received more than 161,513 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Bernard Germain de Lacépède is the 173rd most popular biologist (up from 217th in 2019), the 1,472nd most popular biography from France (up from 2,004th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Biologist.

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Over the past year Bernard Germain de Lacépède has had the most page views in the with 18,355 views, followed by French (7,593), and Chinese (2,222). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Southern Azerbaijani (74.27%), Swedish (65.65%), and Latin (37.01%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Bernard Germain de Lacépède ranks 173 out of 1,097Before him are Georges J. F. Köhler, Pierre André Latreille, Erik Acharius, César Milstein, Paul Greengard, and John Boyd Orr. After him are Ana Aslan, Wilhelm Johannsen, George Wald, Giuseppe Acerbi, Jakob von Uexküll, and Theodor Escherich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1756, Bernard Germain de Lacépède ranks 8Before him are Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria, William Godwin, Maria Theresa of Savoy, Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, and Aaron Burr. After him are Ernst Chladni, Jean-Baptiste Carrier, Louis Henri, Prince of Condé, Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Joseph Martin Kraus, and Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne. Among people deceased in 1825, Bernard Germain de Lacépède ranks 14Before him are Pauline Bonaparte, Jean Paul, Henry Fuseli, Dmitry Bortniansky, Laskarina Bouboulina, and Vivant Denon. After him are Mikhail Miloradovich, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Vladimir Borovikovsky, and Juan Martín Díez.

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In France

Among people born in France, Bernard Germain de Lacépède ranks 1,472 out of 6,770Before him are Jean Clouet (1480), James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick (1670), Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary (1158), Stephen, Count of Blois (1045), Henri de la Rochejaquelein (1772), and Barbara (1930). After him are Maurice Bucaille (1920), Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (1929), Warda Al-Jazairia (1939), Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (1220), André Lhote (1885), and Austen Henry Layard (1817).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Bernard Germain de Lacépède ranks 23Before him are Jean Dausset (1916), Aimé Bonpland (1773), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Michel Adanson (1727), and Pierre André Latreille (1762). After him are Armand David (1826), Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Pierre Belon (1517), Antoine Béchamp (1816), and Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763).