BIOLOGIST

Jean Baptiste Boisduval

1799 - 1879

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Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval (24 June 1799 – 30 December 1879) was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician. He was one of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, and was the co-founder of the Société entomologique de France. While best known abroad for his work in entomology, he started his career in botany, collecting a great number of French plant specimens and writing broadly on the topic throughout his career, including the textbook Flores française in 1828. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Baptiste Boisduval has received more than 35,308 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Baptiste Boisduval is the 800th most popular biologist (down from 624th in 2019), the 4,598th most popular biography from France (down from 3,900th in 2019) and the 115th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jean Baptiste Boisduval ranks 800 out of 1,097. Before him are Thomas Andrew Knight, Amalie Dietrich, Mary Elizabeth Barber, Jacques Miller, William Townsend Aiton, and Francisco Manuel Blanco. After him are Marie-Anne Libert, Robert Trivers, José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, Alec Jeffreys, Thomas Thomson, and Étienne Pierre Ventenat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Jean Baptiste Boisduval ranks 57. Before him are Edward Belcher, Henry Monnier, Eliza Acton, George Finlay, František Čelakovský, and Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville. After him are Avdotia Istomina, David Douglas, Samuel George Morton, Titian Peale, Thomas Hood, and Simon Cameron. Among people deceased in 1879, Jean Baptiste Boisduval ranks 57. Before him are Édouard Spach, Jakob Stämpfli, Peter Arnold Heise, László Paál, Epameinondas Deligeorgis, and Edward Blore. After him are John Bell Hood, Henry Charles Carey, Emma Smith, William Fothergill Cooke, Juan Antonio Pezet, and John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Baptiste Boisduval ranks 4,598 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Miller (1931), Bernard Bosquier (1942), Ferland Mendy (1995), Adèle Exarchopoulos (1993), Guy of Thouars (null), and Jean Marcel Honoré (1920). After him are René Rémond (1918), Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter (1377), Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847), Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768), André Chorda (1938), and Johan Micoud (1973).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Jean Baptiste Boisduval ranks 115. Before him are Auguste Duméril (1812), Jules Verreaux (1807), Frédéric de Lafresnaye (1783), Sabin Berthelot (1794), Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799), and Jacques Miller (1931). After him are Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757), Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (1784), Gaston Bonnier (1853), Jules Pierre Rambur (1801), Paul Henri Lecomte (1856), and Palisot de Beauvois (1752).

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