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Frédéric Cuvier

1773 - 1838

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Georges-Frédéric Cuvier (28 June 1773 – 24 July 1838) was a French zoologist and paleontologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frédéric Cuvier has received more than 105,609 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Frédéric Cuvier is the 552nd most popular biologist (down from 300th in 2019), the 3,700th most popular biography from France (down from 2,454th in 2019) and the 79th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Frédéric Cuvier ranks 552 out of 841Before him are Christian von Steven, Charles De Geer, Eduard Friedrich Eversmann, Jacques Loeb, Paul R. Ehrlich, and John Anderson. After him are Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann, Ivan Martinov, Paul Bert, Richard Lewontin, and Janaki Ammal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, Frédéric Cuvier ranks 37Before him are Giuseppe Acerbi, Yuri Lisyansky, Jacob Aall, Joseph de Villèle, Agostino Bassi, and Arthur Aikin. After him are François Fournier-Sarlovèze, Johann Karl Burckhardt, Josef August Schultes, Mihály Csokonai, Joseph Woelfl, and Mihály Pollack. Among people deceased in 1838, Frédéric Cuvier ranks 28Before him are Osceola, Ferenc Kölcsey, Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, Piet Retief, Maximilian von Montgelas, and Jędrzej Śniadecki. After him are Ludwig Abeille, Ignaz von Rudhart, and Thomas Andrew Knight.

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In France

Among people born in France, Frédéric Cuvier ranks 3,700 out of 6,011Before him are Sébastien Ogier (1983), Ludovic Giuly (1976), Jean Philippe (1931), Victor Lanoux (1936), Emmanuel Bove (1898), and Christophe de Margerie (1951). After him are Napoléon Henri Reber (1807), Daniel Duval (1944), Louise-Victorine Ackermann (1813), Niels Arestrup (1949), Gabriel Chevallier (1895), and Marie Marvingt (1875).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Frédéric Cuvier ranks 79Before him are Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715), Bernard Heuvelmans (1916), Eugène Simon (1848), Jean de Thévenot (1633), Henri Cassini (1781), and René Maire (1878). After him are Paul Bert (1833), Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (1839), Achille Richard (1794), Émile Duclaux (1840), Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813), and Marie Jules César Savigny (1777).