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BIOLOGIST

Félix de Avelar Brotero

1744 - 1828

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Félix de Avelar Brotero (25 November 1744 – 4 August 1828) was a Portuguese botanist and professor. He fled to France in 1788 to escape persecution by the Portuguese Inquisition, and there published his Compendio de Botanica in order to earn his living. It immediately established his reputation as a botanist, and upon his return to Portugal in 1790 he was given the chair of botany and agriculture at the University of Coimbra. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Félix de Avelar Brotero has received more than 5,278 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Félix de Avelar Brotero is the 783rd most popular biologist, the 328th most popular biography from Portugal and the 2nd most popular Portuguese Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Félix de Avelar Brotero ranks 783 out of 841Before him are Bunzō Hayata, Nikolai Turczaninow, Grigore Antipa, Richard Spruce, Yang Zhongjian, and Sereno Watson. After him are Charles Conrad Abbott, Judah Folkman, Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky, Herbert Giles, Alexander Wilson, and Spencer Fullerton Baird.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1744, Félix de Avelar Brotero ranks 25Before him are Nikolay Novikov, Johann III Bernoulli, Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, David Allan, and Tomás António Gonzaga. After him are Mary Moser, Heinrich Christian Boie, Thomas Mifflin, and Pierce Butler. Among people deceased in 1828, Félix de Avelar Brotero ranks 36Before him are Christian August Lorentzen, Vincenzo Monti, Thomas Bewick, Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, Rachel Jackson, and Johann Christoph Wendland. After him are DeWitt Clinton, Dugald Stewart, John Oxley, and William Few.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Félix de Avelar Brotero ranks 328 out of 555Before him are José Leite de Vasconcelos (1858), Jorge de Sena (1919), Guerra Junqueiro (1850), Fernando Chalana (1959), Rui Rio (1957), and Herberto Hélder (1930). After him are Aquilino Ribeiro (1885), Hélder Postiga (1982), Pedro Costa (1958), Pedro Proença (1970), Jorge Costa (1971), and Eduardo Serra (1943).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Portugal

Among biologists born in Portugal, Félix de Avelar Brotero ranks 2Before him are João de Loureiro (1717).