BIOLOGIST

Frédéric de Lafresnaye

1783 - 1861

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Baron Nöel Frédéric Armand André de Lafresnaye (24 July 1783 – 14 July 1861) was a French ornithologist and collector. Lafresnaye was born into an aristocratic family at Chateau de La Fresnaye in Falaise, Normandy. He took an early interest in natural history, particularly entomology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frédéric de Lafresnaye has received more than 22,445 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Frédéric de Lafresnaye is the 784th most popular biologist (down from 725th in 2019), the 4,545th most popular biography from France (down from 4,161st in 2019) and the 111th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Frédéric de Lafresnaye ranks 784 out of 1,097Before him are Louisa Bolus, Peter Duesberg, Paul R. Ehrlich, Henry Baker, Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov, and Aharon Katzir. After him are Sabin Berthelot, Ernst Ahl, Johannes Müller Argoviensis, Warwick Estevam Kerr, Domenico Vandelli, and Philipp Christoph Zeller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Frédéric de Lafresnaye ranks 40Before him are Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Vicente Rocafuerte, José de la Riva Agüero, Hannah Van Buren, Giovanni Berchet, and Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet. After him are Pedro Gual Escandón, David Cox, Thomas Sully, John Claudius Loudon, Thomas Bibb, and Jane Taylor. Among people deceased in 1861, Frédéric de Lafresnaye ranks 57Before him are Peter Georg Bang, José María Obando, Malalai of Maiwand, Michele Tenore, Manuel Antônio de Almeida, and Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer. After him are Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, Édouard Ménétries, José María Linares, Jorge Córdova, Robert O'Hara Burke, and Pierre Bosquet.

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In France

Among people born in France, Frédéric de Lafresnaye ranks 4,545 out of 6,770Before him are Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland (1641), Alexandre Lippmann (1881), Norbert Eschmann (1933), Robert Liottel (1885), Marcel Mouloudji (1922), and Élie Bayol (1914). After him are Richard Gasquet (1986), Sabin Berthelot (1794), Maurice Cloche (1907), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (1985), Raphaël Guerreiro (1993), and André Messager (1853).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Frédéric de Lafresnaye ranks 111Before him are Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778), Émile Oustalet (1844), Théodore Monod (1902), Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804), Auguste Duméril (1812), and Jules Verreaux (1807). After him are Sabin Berthelot (1794), Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799), Jacques Miller (1931), Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799), Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757), and Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (1784).