BIOLOGIST

Charles Alexandre Lesueur

1778 - 1846

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Charles Alexandre Lesueur (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl alɛksɑ̃dʁ ləsɥœʁ]; 1 January 1778 in Le Havre – 12 December 1846 in Le Havre) was a French naturalist, artist, and explorer. He was a prolific natural-history collector, gathering many type specimens in Australia, Southeast Asia, and North America, and was also responsible for describing numerous species, including the spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera), smooth softshell turtle (A. mutica), and common map turtle (Graptemys geographica). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Alexandre Lesueur has received more than 66,313 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Alexandre Lesueur is the 725th most popular biologist (down from 678th in 2019), the 4,396th most popular biography from France (down from 4,042nd in 2019) and the 105th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Alexandre Lesueur ranks 725 out of 1,097. Before him are Angela Piskernik, Franz Xaver Fieber, Emilie Snethlage, Osbert Salvin, John Isaac Briquet, and Karl Patterson Schmidt. After him are Émile Oustalet, Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz, Émil Goeldi, James L. Peters, Nathaniel Wallich, and Karl Julius Perleb.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Charles Alexandre Lesueur ranks 44. Before him are Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł, Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, Mariano Moreno, Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Joseph Grimaldi, and José de la Mar. After him are Francisco Manuel Blanco, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Javier de Burgos, Sahle Dengel, Robert Emmet, and Rembrandt Peale. Among people deceased in 1846, Charles Alexandre Lesueur ranks 26. Before him are Bagyidaw, Alexander Chavchavadze, Carlo Gaetano Gaisruck, Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, and Wilhelm Küchelbecker. After him are W. J. Coffee, Jan Frans Willems, Dwarkanath Tagore, José María Calatrava y Peinado, Thomas Clarkson, and Jane Irwin Harrison.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Alexandre Lesueur ranks 4,396 out of 6,770. Before him are Michel Leclère (1946), Dany Dauberson (1925), Julie Depardieu (1973), Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731), Alfred Aston (1912), and Émile Souvestre (1806). After him are Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard (1652), Émile Oustalet (1844), Jeannie Longo (1958), Alain Perrin (1956), Mady Mesplé (1931), and Philippe Claudel (1962).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Charles Alexandre Lesueur ranks 105. Before him are Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794), Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1723), Édouard Spach (1801), François Marie Daudin (1776), André Thouin (1746), and Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759). After him are Émile Oustalet (1844), Théodore Monod (1902), Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804), Auguste Duméril (1812), Jules Verreaux (1807), and Frédéric de Lafresnaye (1783).

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