BIOLOGIST

Charles De Geer

1720 - 1778

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Charles De Geer (30 January 1720 – 7 March 1778) was an entomologist, industrialist, civil servant and book collector. He is sometimes referred to as Charles the Entomologist, to distinguish him from other relatives with the same name. Charles De Geer came from a prominent Swedish-Dutch family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles De Geer has received more than 55,650 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Charles De Geer is the 496th most popular biologist (up from 546th in 2019), the 502nd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 545th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Swedish Biologist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles De Geer ranks 496 out of 1,097. Before him are George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Johann Georg Wagler, Ardem Patapoutian, Elmer Drew Merrill, Moritz Wagner, and Wilhelm Pfeffer. After him are George Prideaux Robert Harris, Jules Émile Planchon, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, Francis Collins, Edward Blyth, and Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1720, Charles De Geer ranks 22. Before him are Hyder Ali, Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, Johann Friedrich Agricola, Johann Schobert, Maximilian Hell, and Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini. After him are Balaji Baji Rao, Justus Möser, Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville, and Gilbert White. Among people deceased in 1778, Charles De Geer ranks 15. Before him are William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, Thomas Arne, Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo, Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Francesca Cuzzoni. After him are Princess Christine of Hesse-Rotenburg, Pedro Antonio de Cevallos, Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet, and Thomas Linley the younger.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Charles De Geer ranks 502 out of 1,879. Before him are Gustaf Cederström (1845), Katarina Taikon (1932), Olle Hellbom (1925), Felix Hamrin (1875), Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden (1100), and Viktor Rydberg (1828). After him are Tommy Körberg (1948), Kent Andersson (1942), Erik Lundqvist (1908), John Ljunggren (1919), Knut Ångström (1857), and Sigge Parling (1930).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Charles De Geer ranks 21. Before him are Pehr Kalm (1716), Carl Alexander Clerck (1710), Göran Wahlenberg (1780), Jacob Georg Agardh (1813), Olof Swartz (1760), and Anders Dahl (1751). After him are Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801), Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), Karl Rudolphi (1771), Nils Johan Andersson (1821), and Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898).

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