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Jean-Augustin Barral

1819 - 1884

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Jean-Augustin Barral (31 January 1819 – 10 September 1884) was a French agronomist and balloonist. Barral was born in Metz (Moselle). He studied at a polytechnic school and became a physicist as well as a professor of chemistry and agronomy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Augustin Barral has received more than 14,059 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Augustin Barral is the 258th most popular engineer (down from 238th in 2019), the 4,123rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,749th in 2019) and the 48th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Jean-Augustin Barral ranks 258 out of 389. Before him are Pierre Cérésole, Johannes Winkler, René Panhard, Oskar von Miller, Eugène Flachat, and Louis Vicat. After him are William Froude, Gioacchino Colombo, Butler Lampson, Markus Reiner, Eugene Polley, and Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Jean-Augustin Barral ranks 76. Before him are Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, Théodore Gouvy, James Russell Lowell, Friedrich von Bodenstedt, Henri Harpignies, and Constant Fornerod. After him are Władysław Taczanowski, Ernst Falkbeer, Émile Blanchard, Louise Otto-Peters, Klaus Groth, and Joseph-Alfred Serret. Among people deceased in 1884, Jean-Augustin Barral ranks 53. Before him are Giuseppe De Nittis, Miroslav Tyrš, Victor Massé, Keshub Chandra Sen, Emanuel Geibel, and Carlo Alberto Castigliano. After him are Andon Bedros IX Hassoun, Buenaventura Báez, Daniel Harrwitz, Heinrich Göppert, Alfred Francis Russell, and Ferdinand von Hochstetter.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Augustin Barral ranks 4,123 out of 6,770. Before him are Pierre Mac Orlan (1882), James Smithson (1765), Jean-Richard Bloch (1884), Élie-Abel Carrière (1818), Florence Arthaud (1957), and Oscar Heisserer (1914). After him are Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro (1963), Joséphine Fodor (1789), Victor Bérard (1864), Cerrone (1952), André Darrigade (1929), and Bertrand Cantat (1964).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Jean-Augustin Barral ranks 48. Before him are Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747), Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798), Marc Isambard Brunel (1769), René Panhard (1841), Eugène Flachat (1802), and Louis Vicat (1786). After him are Ernest Goüin (1815), Marcel Deprez (1843), Fulgence Bienvenüe (1852), Louis Pouzin (1931), Pierre-François Bouchard (1771), and Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881).

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