BIOLOGIST

Guillaume Rondelet

1507 - 1566

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Guillaume Rondelet (27 September 1507 – 30 July 1566), also known as Rondeletus/Rondeletius, was Regius professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier in southern France and Chancellor of the University between 1556 and his death in 1566. He achieved renown as an anatomist and a naturalist with a particular interest in botany and ichthyology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guillaume Rondelet has received more than 51,962 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Guillaume Rondelet is the 415th most popular biologist (down from 320th in 2019), the 3,146th most popular biography from France (down from 2,736th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Guillaume Rondelet ranks 415 out of 1,097. Before him are Peter Artedi, C. L. Gloger, Adrien-Henri de Jussieu, Johann Jakob Heckel, John Needham, and Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst. After him are Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Alexander Braun, George Robert Waterhouse, Pehr Kalm, William Speirs Bruce, and Heinrich Wilhelm Schott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1507, Guillaume Rondelet ranks 14. Before him are Johannes Sturm, Bálint Bakfark, Ferrante Gonzaga, Alvise I Mocenigo, Marie of Baden-Sponheim, and Magdalena of Saxony. After him is Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow. Among people deceased in 1566, Guillaume Rondelet ranks 15. Before him are Antonio de Cabezón, Sigismund von Herberstein, Margaret Paleologa, Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Taddeo Zuccari, and Lambert Lombard. After him are Johannes Agricola, Francisco López de Gómara, Christopher, Count of Oldenburg, David Rizzio, Marco Girolamo Vida, and Romanino.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume Rondelet ranks 3,146 out of 6,770. Before him are Raymond Sommer (1906), Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (1908), Madeleine Lebeau (1923), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), Antoine III de Gramont (1604), and Jean du Bellay (1492). After him are Pierre Baillot (1771), Gustave Le Gray (1820), Charles Estienne (1504), Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697), Paul Belmondo (1963), and Moungi Bawendi (1961).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Guillaume Rondelet ranks 52. Before him are Antoine de Jussieu (1686), Achille Richard (1794), René Lesson (1794), Félix Vicq-d'Azyr (1748), Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), and Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797). After him are Lucien Quélet (1832), Frédéric Cuvier (1773), Alain Bombard (1924), Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (1770), Alfred Grandidier (1836), and Gabriel Bibron (1805).

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