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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 218th most popular biologist (down from 147th in 2019), the 2,011th most popular biography from France (down from 1,444th in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Bernard Germain de Lacépède ranks 218 out of 841Before him are Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Georges J. F. Köhler, Willi Hennig, Thomas Browne, Pierre Belon, and Michael Rosbash. After him are Michael W. Young, Erik Acharius, Carl Ludwig Willdenow, Adolf Engler, Eva Ekeblad, and Bruce Beutler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1756, Bernard Germain de Lacépède ranks 14Before him are Ernst Chladni, Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Joseph Martin Kraus, Louis Henri, Prince of Condé, Jean-Baptiste Carrier, and Wojciech Żywny. After him are Duke Louis of Württemberg, Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, Thomas Rowlandson, Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve, James Gillray, and Paul Wranitzky. Among people deceased in 1825, Bernard Germain de Lacépède ranks 13Before him are Pauline Bonaparte, Henry Fuseli, Jean Paul, Dmitry Bortniansky, Laskarina Bouboulina, and Vivant Denon. After him are Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein, Mikhail Miloradovich, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Eli Whitney, Karl Mollweide, and Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Bernard Germain de Lacépède ranks 2,011 out of 6,011Before him are Jean-Marc Ayrault (1950), Legall de Kermeur (1702), Joseph Monier (1823), Fernand Cormon (1845), Guillaume Postel (1510), and Jacques-François Blondel (1705). After him are Jean Maximilien Lamarque (1770), Benedict Joseph Labre (1748), William Iron Arm (1010), Louis Delluc (1890), Olivier Giroud (1986), and Blanche of Artois (1248).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Bernard Germain de Lacépède ranks 28Before him are Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Antoine Béchamp (1816), Michel Adanson (1727), Pierre André Latreille (1762), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), and Pierre Belon (1517). After him are Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), Félix d'Herelle (1873), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Johann Hermann (1738), and René Lesson (1794).