BIOLOGIST

Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle

1746 - 1800

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Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl lwi leʁitje də bʁytɛl]; 15 June 1746 – 18 August 1800) was an 18th-century French botanist and civil servant. Born into an affluent upper-class Parisian family, connections with the French Royal Court secured him the position of Superintendent of Parisian Waters and Forests at the age of twenty-six. In this capacity, L'Héritier conducted various studies of native trees and shrubs, also gaining interest in exotic flora. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle has received more than 39,210 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle is the 514th most popular biologist (down from 416th in 2019), the 3,629th most popular biography from France (down from 3,160th in 2019) and the 69th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle ranks 514 out of 1,097. Before him are Carl Jakob Sundevall, Theodore Gill, Christian von Steven, John Murray, Johann Julius Walbaum, and Daniel Giraud Elliot. After him are Ivan Martinov, Paul Gervais, Paul Nurse, Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Eugène Simon, and Francisco Hernández de Toledo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle ranks 28. Before him are Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, Infanta Benedita of Portugal, Antonio Rosetti, Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, Jean-Sifrein Maury, and Bernardo de Gálvez. After him are William Curtis, Charles Cameron, Joachim Heinrich Campe, Robert R. Livingston, André Thouin, and Louise du Pierry. Among people deceased in 1800, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle ranks 26. Before him are Koca Yusuf Pasha, Friedrich Gilly, Joseph de Guignes, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, William Cowper, and Abraham Gotthelf Kästner. After him are Michael Denis, Margravine Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Victor Louis, John Rutledge, Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe, and Jesse Ramsden.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle ranks 3,629 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646), Henri Brocard (1845), Georges Rayet (1839), Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842), Noël Martin Joseph de Necker (1730), and Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1090). After him are Marcel Prévost (1862), Paul Gervais (1816), Marc Levy (1961), Cécilia Attias (1957), Gérard Lenorman (1945), and Henri Regnault (1843).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle ranks 69. Before him are Matthias de l'Obel (1538), Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776), Jules Émile Planchon (1823), Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (1839), Achille Valenciennes (1794), and Sébastien Vaillant (1669). After him are Paul Gervais (1816), Eugène Simon (1848), Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), Paul Bert (1833), Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936), and Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778).

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