BIOLOGIST

Edmond Albius

1829 - 1880

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Edmond Albius (c. 1829 – 9 August 1880) was a horticulturalist from Réunion. Born into slavery, Albius became an important figure in the cultivation of vanilla. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmond Albius has received more than 320,677 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Edmond Albius is the 582nd most popular biologist (down from 483rd in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Réunion and the most popular Biologist.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edmond Albius ranks 582 out of 1,097. Before him are Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, William Elford Leach, Jacob Sturm, George Allman, Georg August Schweinfurth, and Harold E. Varmus. After him are Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Franz Unger, Johann Gottfried Zinn, Tsuneko Okazaki, João de Loureiro, and Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Edmond Albius ranks 54. Before him are Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Jean Dufresne, Alfred Newton, Suzanne Manet, Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, and Lester Allan Pelton. After him are Ferdinand von Hochstetter, August Malmström, Princess Louise of Prussia, José López Domínguez, Epameinondas Deligeorgis, and Frederick Sandys. Among people deceased in 1880, Edmond Albius ranks 44. Before him are Napoléon Henri Reber, Peter Wilhelm Lund, Nikolay Zinin, Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, Manuel Montt, and Benjamin Peirce. After him are Izmail Sreznevsky, Nils Johan Andersson, Daniel Bashiel Warner, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Heinrich von Gagern, and Karl von Holtei.

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In Réunion

Among people born in Réunion, Edmond Albius ranks 9 out of 16. Before him are Ambroise Vollard (1866), Leconte de Lisle (1818), Raymond Barre (1924), Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1796), Dimitri Payet (1987), and Évariste de Parny (1753). After him are Jackson Richardson (1969), Daniel Narcisse (1979), Florent Sinama Pongolle (1984), Guillaume Hoarau (1984), Laurent Robert (1975), and Stéphen Boyer (1996).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Réunion

Among biologists born in Réunion, Edmond Albius ranks 1. 

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