BIOLOGIST

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque

1783 - 1840

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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (French pronunciation: [kɔ̃stɑ̃tin samɥɛl ʁafinɛsk(ə)ʃmalts]; 22 October 1783 – 18 September 1840) was a French early 19th-century polymath born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire and self-educated in France. He traveled as a young man in the United States, ultimately settling in Ohio in 1815, where he made notable contributions to botany, zoology, and the study of prehistoric earthworks in North America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Constantine Samuel Rafinesque has received more than 396,977 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Constantine Samuel Rafinesque is the 572nd most popular biologist (down from 536th in 2019), the 862nd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 950th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Turkish Biologist.

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  • 4.25

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque ranks 572 out of 1,097. Before him are Hwang Woo-suk, Blasius Merrem, John Ellis, Jean de Thévenot, Johann Heinrich Blasius, and Miles Joseph Berkeley. After him are Sewall Wright, Alessandra Giliani, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, William Elford Leach, and Jacob Sturm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque ranks 34. Before him are Charles Julien Brianchon, Guglielmo Pepe, Pattimura, Erik Gustaf Geijer, John Crawfurd, and Joaquina Vedruna de Mas. After him are Vicente Rocafuerte, José de la Riva Agüero, Hannah Van Buren, Giovanni Berchet, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet, and Frédéric de Lafresnaye. Among people deceased in 1840, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque ranks 37. Before him are Frances Burney, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Dingane kaSenzangakhona, Carl Blechen, Sidney Smith, and Franz Meyen. After him are Anthony Carlisle, Karl Leberecht Immermann, Joseph Johann von Littrow, John Abbot, Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, and James Prinsep.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque ranks 862 out of 1,347. Before him are Selma Rıza (1872), Pancras of Taormina (1), Andronikos Komnenos (1108), Ino Anastasia (600), Joachim III of Constantinople (1834), and Doğu Perinçek (1942). After him are Charles Gérard (1922), Nouriel Roubini (1958), Vladimir Triandafillov (1894), Özcan Deniz (1972), Erkin Koray (1941), and Dionysius of Heraclea (-360).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Türkiye

Among biologists born in Türkiye, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque ranks 2. Before him are Sabiha Kasimati (1912). After him are Asuman Baytop (1920).

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