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BIOLOGIST

Carolus Clusius

1525 - 1609

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Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius (19 February 1526 – 4 April 1609), seigneur de Watènes, was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carolus Clusius has received more than 106,717 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Carolus Clusius is the 85th most popular biologist (down from 83rd in 2019), the 941st most popular biography from France (up from 972nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Biologist.

Carolus Clusius was a botanist who is most famous for his work in the field of botany. He was the first to describe the tulip, and he was also the first to bring many different plants from the New World to Europe.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carolus Clusius ranks 85 out of 841. Before him are Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Jan Swammerdam, Gabriele Falloppio, and Jean Dausset. After him are Alfred Hershey, Elizabeth Blackburn, E. O. Wilson, André Michel Lwoff, John Gurdon, and Werner Arber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1525, Carolus Clusius ranks 4. Before him are Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Nurbanu Sultan, and Şehzade Bayezid. After him are John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Hans Staden, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Zhang Juzheng, Germain Pilon, John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Patriarch Job of Moscow, and Caspar Peucer. Among people deceased in 1609, Carolus Clusius ranks 6. Before him are Annibale Carracci, Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Jacobus Arminius, and Joseph Justus Scaliger. After him are Federico Zuccari, Gasparo da Salò, John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and Yi San-hae.

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In France

Among people born in France, Carolus Clusius ranks 941 out of 6,011. Before him are Geoffrey of Villehardouin (1150), Thierry Henry (1977), Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné (1626), Francis III, Duke of Brittany (1518), Antoine Meillet (1866), and Henri Lebesgue (1875). After him are Leonard of Noblac (496), Gaston Maspero (1846), Louis II of Anjou (1377), Martin Bucer (1491), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), and Louise Michel (1830).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Carolus Clusius ranks 15. Before him are Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), and Jean Dausset (1916). After him are André Michel Lwoff (1902), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Armand David (1826), and Aimé Bonpland (1773).

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