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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 293,107 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Edmond Albius is the 484th most popular biologist (down from 430th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Réunion (down from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edmond Albius ranks 484 out of 841Before him are René Dubos, Sébastien Vaillant, George Clifford III, Achille Valenciennes, Jean Cabanis, and Aaron Aaronsohn. After him are Pieter Bleeker, Reginald Punnett, Martin Rathke, Jules Émile Planchon, Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, and Johann Friedrich Meckel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, Edmond Albius ranks 44Before him are Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, Carl Schurz, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, Mikayel Nalbandian, Laurence Oliphant, and Lester Allan Pelton. After him are August Malmström, Jean Dufresne, Moritz Cantor, Alfred Newton, Frederick Sandys, and Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer. Among people deceased in 1880, Edmond Albius ranks 39Before him are Karl Friedrich Lessing, Peter Wilhelm Lund, August Karl von Goeben, Lucretia Mott, Edwin Drake, and Francis de Laporte de Castelnau. After him are Manuel Montt, Nikolay Zinin, James Craig Watson, Benjamin Peirce, Nils Johan Andersson, and Izmail Sreznevsky.

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In Réunion

Among people born in Réunion, Edmond Albius ranks 9 out of 16Before him are Leconte de Lisle (1818), Ambroise Vollard (1866), Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1796), Raymond Barre (1924), Dimitri Payet (1987), and Évariste de Parny (1753). After him are Jackson Richardson (1969), Daniel Narcisse (1979), Guillaume Hoarau (1984), Florent Sinama Pongolle (1984), Laurent Robert (1975), and Ronny Rodelin (1989).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Réunion

Among biologists born in Réunion, Edmond Albius ranks 1