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Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville

1697 - 1782

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Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist buʁgiɲɔ̃ dɑ̃vil]; born in Paris 11 July 1697 – 28 January 1782) was a French geographer and cartographer who greatly improved the standards of map-making. D'Anville became cartographer to the king, who purchased his cartographic materials, the largest collection in France. He made more than 200 maps during his lifetime, which are characterized by a careful, accurate work largely based on original research. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville has received more than 45,846 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville is the 44th most popular geographer (down from 42nd in 2019), the 2,633rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,540th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville ranks 44 out of 86. Before him are Alfred Hettner, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Otto Nordenskjöld, Johann Georg Gmelin, Conrad Malte-Brun, and Erich von Drygalski. After him are Marie Tharp, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, Jan Janssonius, Yi-Fu Tuan, Inō Tadataka, and Richard Hartshorne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1697, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville ranks 11. Before him are Jean-Marie Leclair, Antoine François Prévost, Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Mahmud Hotak, Louise Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco, and Faustina Bordoni. After him are Nicola Salvi, Peter August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand, Christine Kirch, Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, and Francesco Antonio Vallotti. Among people deceased in 1782, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville ranks 19. Before him are Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Maria Carolina of Savoy, Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Hyder Ali. After him are Princess Maria Christina of Saxony, Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Sava Petrović, Daniel Solander, Richard Wilson, and Sadeq Khan Zand.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville ranks 2,633 out of 6,770. Before him are Nadine Trintignant (1934), Paul Adam (1862), Jean-Luc Marion (1946), Jean-Delphin Alard (1815), Aénor de Châtellerault (1103), and Louis François Joseph, Prince of Conti (1734). After him are Odo I, Count of Blois (950), Thomas Piketty (1971), Georges Wilson (1921), Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1610), Adolphe Monticelli (1824), and Dominique Colonna (1928).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In France

Among geographers born in France, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville ranks 4. Before him are Paul Vidal de La Blache (1845), Élisée Reclus (1830), and Nicolas Sanson (1600). After him are Guillaume Delisle (1675), Emmanuel de Martonne (1873), Nicolas de Fer (1646), and Guillaume Grandidier (1873).

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