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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 255,416 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Henri Fabre is the 55th most popular biologist (down from 42nd in 2019), the 732nd most popular biography from France (down from 641st in 2019) and the 9th 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 55 out of 841. Before him are Hans Spemann, Peter Simon Pallas, Nikolai Vavilov, Hugo de Vries, Vladimir Vernadsky, and Adelbert von Chamisso. After him are François Jacob, Erasmus Darwin, Albert Claude, Hugo Theorell, Stanley B. Prusiner, and Ernst Mayr.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Henri Fabre ranks 732 out of 6,011. Before him are Prince Philippe, Count of Paris (1838), Charles-François Daubigny (1817), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), Eugène Edine Pottier (1816), Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788), and Rudolph of France (890). After him are Maurice Blanchot (1907), Célestin Freinet (1896), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824), François Jacob (1920), Thierry Mugler (1948), and Jean-Pierre Melville (1917).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Jean-Henri Fabre ranks 9. Before him are Georges Cuvier (1769), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707), Charles Richet (1850), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), and Adelbert von Chamisso (1781). After him are François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Jean Dausset (1916), and Carolus Clusius (1525).

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