BIOLOGIST

Jean-Henri Fabre

1823 - 1915

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Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (21 December 1823 – 11 October 1915) was a French naturalist, entomologist, and author known for the lively style of his popular books on the lives of insects. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Henri Fabre has received more than 272,154 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Jean-Henri Fabre is the 53rd most popular biologist (up from 55th in 2019), the 695th most popular biography from France (up from 731st in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Biologist.

Jean-Henri Fabre is most famous for his studies on insects. He was a French entomologist and professor of entomology at the University of Montpellier.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jean-Henri Fabre ranks 53 out of 1,097. Before him are Richard Owen, Jan Evangelista Purkyně, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, Roger Guillemin, Hugo Theorell, and Albert Claude. After him are François Jacob, Sylvia Earle, Hugo de Vries, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Daniel Bovet, and John Edward Gray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Jean-Henri Fabre ranks 11. Before him are Gyula Andrássy, Ernest Renan, Sándor Petőfi, Leopold Kronecker, Édouard Lalo, and Alexandre Cabanel. After him are Li Hongzhang, John Sherman, Mihailo Obrenović, Charles I of Württemberg, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, and Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Among people deceased in 1915, Jean-Henri Fabre ranks 8. Before him are Alexander Scriabin, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Paul Ehrlich, Porfirio Díaz, Henry Moseley, and Ellen G. White. After him are Sergei Witte, Clara Immerwahr, Leo Frank, Wilhelm Windelband, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, and Michel Bréal.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Henri Fabre ranks 695 out of 6,770. Before him are Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922), Anne of Foix-Candale (1484), Louise of Savoy (1476), Éliphas Lévi (1810), Darius Milhaud (1892), and Maurice Allais (1911). After him are Madame de La Fayette (1634), Raymond Aron (1905), François Jacob (1920), Antoine-Jean Gros (1771), Pierre Loti (1850), and Maurice Gamelin (1872).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Jean-Henri Fabre ranks 10. Before him are Luc Montagnier (1932), Charles Richet (1850), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), and Roger Guillemin (1924). After him are François Jacob (1920), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772).

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