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BIOLOGIST

Charles De Geer

1720 - 1778

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Baron Charles de Geer (the family is usually known as De Geer with a capitalized "De" and is pronounced "de yer"; 30 January 1720 in Finspång – 7 March 1778 in Stockholm) was a Swedish industrialist and entomologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles De Geer has received more than 42,260 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles De Geer is the 547th most popular biologist (down from 411th in 2019), the 546th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 401st in 2019) and the 26th most popular Swedish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles De Geer ranks 547 out of 841Before him are João de Loureiro, Ludwig Diels, Henri Cassini, René Maire, John Gilbert Baker, and Christian von Steven. After him are Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Jacques Loeb, Paul R. Ehrlich, John Anderson, Frédéric Cuvier, and Paul Friedrich August Ascherson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1720, Charles De Geer ranks 23Before him are Maximilian Hell, Johann Friedrich Agricola, Johann Schobert, Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, and Balaji Baji Rao. After him is Gilbert White. Among people deceased in 1778, Charles De Geer ranks 15Before him are Thomas Arne, Étienne-Gabriel Morelly, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo, Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Princess Christine of Hesse-Rotenburg. After him are Francesca Cuzzoni, Pedro Antonio de Cevallos, Thomas Linley the younger, and Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Charles De Geer ranks 546 out of 1,612Before him are Bo Svenson (1941), Harald Edelstam (1913), Henri Saint Cyr (1902), Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790), Bert Bolin (1925), and Henrik Sjöberg (1875). After him are Kiki Håkansson (1929), Barbro Lindgren (1937), Dan Andersson (1888), Janet Ågren (1949), Olle Anderberg (1919), and Hasse Ekman (1915).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Sweden

Among biologists born in Sweden, Charles De Geer ranks 26Before him are Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898), Jacob Georg Agardh (1813), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801), Nils Johan Andersson (1821), and Karl Rudolphi (1771). After him are Carl Alexander Clerck (1710), Johan Andreas Murray (1740), Jacob Bjerknes (1897), Carl Skottsberg (1880), and Astrid Cleve (1875).