BIOLOGIST

Edmond de Sélys Longchamps

1813 - 1900

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Baron Michel Edmond de Selys Longchamps (25 May 1813 – 11 December 1900) was a Belgian Liberal Party politician and scientist. Selys Longchamps has been regarded as the founding figure of odonatology, the study of the dragonflies and damselflies. His wealth and influence enabled him to amass one of the finest collections of neuroptera insects and to describe many species from around the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmond de Sélys Longchamps has received more than 37,899 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Edmond de Sélys Longchamps is the 606th most popular biologist (down from 583rd in 2019), the 3,978th most popular biography from France (down from 3,784th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps ranks 606 out of 1,097. Before him are René Dubos, Jack Horner, Heinrich von Kittlitz, Ludwig Diels, Richard Lydekker, and Philip Henry Gosse. After him are Fritz Schaudinn, Martin Rathke, James Francis Stephens, Richard Goldschmidt, George Clifford III, and Alfred Sturtevant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps ranks 57. Before him are John C. Frémont, Prince August of Württemberg, Stephen A. Douglas, Otto Ludwig, Aloys Sprenger, and Giovanni Luppis. After him are Otto Jahn, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Franz Delitzsch, Isidore Pils, Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, and Japetus Steenstrup. Among people deceased in 1900, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps ranks 70. Before him are Antoine Vollon, Wilhelm Kühne, Carl Lange, Karl Doppler, Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, and Sigbjørn Obstfelder. After him are Gustaf Åkerhielm, James Edward Keeler, Adrien René Franchet, Johan Kjeldahl, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, and Albert Samain.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps ranks 3,978 out of 6,770. Before him are Joseph Diez Gergonne (1771), Jacques Pelletier du Mans (1517), Ratramnus (800), Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913), André Lerond (1930), and Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852). After him are Pierre Michon (1945), Princess Maria di Grazia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1878), Jean Becker (1933), Paul Meurisse (1912), Mathé Altéry (1927), and Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps ranks 83. Before him are Jean de Thévenot (1633), Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan (1814), Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715), Antoine Risso (1777), Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800), and René Dubos (1901). After him are Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856), Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855), Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810), Jean Victoir Audouin (1797), Émile Duclaux (1840), and René Maire (1878).

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