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BIOLOGIST

Charles Alexandre Lesueur

1778 - 1846

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Charles Alexandre Lesueur (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 61,273 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Charles Alexandre Lesueur is the 679th most popular biologist (up from 682nd in 2019), the 4,058th most popular biography from France (down from 3,730th in 2019) and the 99th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Alexandre Lesueur ranks 679 out of 841. Before him are Marie-Anne Libert, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Elizabeth Gertrude Britton, Ernst Hartert, Émile Oustalet, and Otto Stapf. After him are Alexander Agassiz, Nicolaus Michael Oppel, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Jacques Miller, Jan Frederik Gronovius, and John Richardson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Charles Alexandre Lesueur ranks 40. Before him are Mariano Moreno, Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, William Hazlitt, Carl Bernhard von Trinius, and Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux. After him are José de la Mar, Francisco Manuel Blanco, Javier de Burgos, and Robert Emmet. Among people deceased in 1846, Charles Alexandre Lesueur ranks 25. Before him are Bagyidaw, Joseph Weigl, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, Princess Amalie of Hesse-Homburg, Wilhelm Küchelbecker, and W. J. Coffee. After him are Jan Frans Willems, Thomas Clarkson, José María Calatrava y Peinado, and Jane Irwin Harrison.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Alexandre Lesueur ranks 4,058 out of 6,011. Before him are Roger Lapébie (1911), André Comte-Sponville (1952), Elizabeth Debicki (1990), Émile Oustalet (1844), Jean-Marie Poiré (1945), and Michel Déon (1919). After him are Stéphane Javelle (1864), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957), Louis Saha (1978), Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881), Renaud Lavillenie (1986), and Alfred Manessier (1911).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Charles Alexandre Lesueur ranks 99. Before him are Gabriel Bibron (1805), Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810), Théodore Monod (1902), Paul Gervais (1816), Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800), and Émile Oustalet (1844). After him are Jacques Miller (1931), Antoine Risso (1777), Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1723), Élie-Abel Carrière (1818), Sabin Berthelot (1794), and François Marie Daudin (1776).

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