GEOLOGIST

Ignacy Domeyko

1802 - 1889

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Ignacy Domeyko or Domejko, pseudonym: Żegota (Spanish: Ignacio Domeyko, Spanish pronunciation: [iɣˈnasjo ðoˈmejko]; 31 July 1802 – 23 January 1889) was a Polish geologist, mineralogist, educator, and founder of the University of Santiago, in Chile. Domeyko spent most of his life, and died, in his adopted country, Chile. After a youth passed in partitioned Poland, Domeyko participated in the Polish–Russian War 1830–31. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ignacy Domeyko has received more than 77,274 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ignacy Domeyko is the 18th most popular geologist (down from 17th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Belarus (up from 49th in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Ignacy Domeyko ranks 18 out of 90. Before him are Francis Beaufort, Vasily Dokuchaev, Abraham Gottlob Werner, William Smith, Beno Gutenberg, and Christian Leopold von Buch. After him are Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, Giuseppe Mercalli, Gideon Mantell, Jean-André Deluc, William Buckland, and Adam Sedgwick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Ignacy Domeyko ranks 21. Before him are Husein Gradaščević, Antoine Jérôme Balard, Harriet Martineau, Alcide d'Orbigny, Nikolaus Lenau, and Hermann Goldschmidt. After him are Charlotte Bonaparte, Carl Ritter von Ghega, Charles Auguste de Bériot, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Arnold Ruge, and Leopold Fitzinger. Among people deceased in 1889, Ignacy Domeyko ranks 25. Before him are Maria Mitchell, Robert Browning, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, and John Ericsson. After him are Jules Dupré, Gaston Planté, Şevkefza Kadın, Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel, Elvira Madigan, and Viktor Bunyakovsky.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Ignacy Domeyko ranks 48 out of 368. Before him are Mendele Mocher Sforim (1835), Bronislava Nijinska (1891), Otto Schmidt (1891), Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł (1515), Paul Baran (1926), and Euphrosyne of Polotsk (1110). After him are Vasil Bykaŭ (1924), Yakov Zeldovich (1914), Salomon Maimon (1754), Vseslav of Polotsk (1029), Abba Kovner (1918), and Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Belarus

Among geologists born in Belarus, Ignacy Domeyko ranks 1. After him are Anna Missuna (1868).

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