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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 35,655 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Edmond de Sélys Longchamps is the 584th most popular biologist (up from 601st in 2019), the 3,800th most popular biography from France (down from 3,512th in 2019) and the 84th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps ranks 584 out of 841. Before him are Asa Gray, Émile Duclaux, Johannes Burman, Francisco J. Ayala, William Withering, and Johann Friedrich Naumann. After him are Franz Unger, Gerrit Smith Miller, Ignaz Schiffermüller, Fritz Schaudinn, Marie Jules César Savigny, and Robert Swinhoe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps ranks 56. Before him are Otto Ludwig, John C. Frémont, Jean Stas, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Otto Jahn, and Stephen A. Douglas. After him are Errico Petrella, Karel Sabina, Franz Delitzsch, Isaac Pitman, Félix María Zuloaga, and Gennady Nevelskoy. Among people deceased in 1900, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps ranks 63. Before him are Dankmar Adler, Jean Frédéric Frenet, Dmitry Grigorovich, Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, John Anderson, and Johan Kjeldahl. After him are Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Catherine Wolfe Bruce, Gustaf Åkerhielm, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Wilhelm Kühne, and Gustav Hartlaub.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps ranks 3,800 out of 6,011. Before him are Pierre Bachelet (1944), Christian Gourcuff (1955), Paul Meurisse (1912), Claude Aveline (1901), Danièle Delorme (1926), and Bernard Pivot (1935). After him are Richard Berry (1950), Abel Bonnard (1883), Léon Gautier (1832), Georges Speicher (1907), Hervé Faye (1814), and Gustave Lanson (1857).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps ranks 84. Before him are René Maire (1878), Frédéric Cuvier (1773), Paul Bert (1833), Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (1839), Achille Richard (1794), and Émile Duclaux (1840). After him are Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1779), Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804), Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835), Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799), and Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759).

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