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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 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 373,698 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Constantine Samuel Rafinesque is the 537th most popular biologist (down from 344th in 2019), the 952nd most popular biography from Turkey (down from 732nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Turkish Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque ranks 537 out of 841. Before him are Tsuneko Okazaki, Robert Sapolsky, Mary Agnes Chase, Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, Johannes Thiele, and Philip Henry Gosse. After him are Eugène Simon, Karl Rudolphi, Jean de Thévenot, João de Loureiro, Ludwig Diels, and Henri Cassini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque ranks 33. Before him are Joaquina Vedruna de Mas, Guglielmo Pepe, John Crawfurd, Erik Gustaf Geijer, Charles Julien Brianchon, and Domingo Caycedo. After him are Vicente Rocafuerte, José de la Riva Agüero, Giovanni Berchet, Frédéric de Lafresnaye, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet, and Pedro Gual Escandón. Among people deceased in 1840, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque ranks 35. Before him are Sidney Smith, Karl Otfried Müller, Frances Burney, Carl Blechen, Johann Michael Vogl, and Nicholas Aylward Vigors. After him are Franz Meyen, Joseph Johann von Littrow, Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, Karl Leberecht Immermann, James Prinsep, and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque ranks 952 out of 1,301. Before him are Turgay Şeren (1932), Burhan Sargun (1929), Serhat (1964), Metrophanes of Byzantium (300), Recep Peker (1889), and Mithat Bayrak (1929). After him are Subhi Bey Barakat (1889), Selda Bağcan (1948), Nihat Erim (1912), Mustafa Sandal (1970), Tarık Akan (1949), and Colotes (-320).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Turkey

Among biologists born in Turkey, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque ranks 2. Before him are Sabiha Kasimati (1912).

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