GEOLOGIST

Joachim Barrande

1799 - 1883

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Joachim Barrande (11 August 1799 – 5 October 1883) was a French geologist and palaeontologist. He was particularly known for his work on trilobites, published in the Systéme Silurien de la Bohéme which he published in 22 parts. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joachim Barrande has received more than 36,689 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Joachim Barrande is the 36th most popular geologist (up from 39th in 2019), the 3,768th most popular biography from France (down from 3,719th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Joachim Barrande ranks 36 out of 90. Before him are Albert Heim, Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Anna Missuna, Adolphe d'Archiac, Harry Hammond Hess, and Édouard Lartet. After him are Alexander von Keyserling, Hiroo Kanamori, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, Arthur Holmes, John Phillips, and Alexander Karpinsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Joachim Barrande ranks 40. Before him are Tanaka Hisashige, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Alexander Petrov, Nathaniel Palmer, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, and Manuel Bulnes. After him are Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, Heinrich von Kittlitz, Imre Frivaldszky, David Don, Fyodor Bruni, and Heinrich von Gagern. Among people deceased in 1883, Joachim Barrande ranks 58. Before him are Francesco de Sanctis, Mahmud Nedim Pasha, Heinrich von Ferstel, Oswald Heer, Alexander H. Stephens, and Sven Nilsson. After him are Edward Sabine, John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, Alexandros Koumoundouros, Samo Chalupka, Victor Puiseux, and Philipp Christoph Zeller.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joachim Barrande ranks 3,768 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Mermoz (1901), Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778), George Cœdès (1886), Raimu (1883), Frank Leboeuf (1968), and Nicolas Jenson (1420). After him are Bruno Coulais (1954), François Chabot (1756), Martin Guerre (1524), Marie of the Incarnation (1599), Maurice Paléologue (1859), and Antoine Vollon (1833).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In France

Among geologists born in France, Joachim Barrande ranks 5. Before him are Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (1750), Léon Teisserenc de Bort (1855), Adolphe d'Archiac (1802), and Édouard Lartet (1801). After him are Alfred Lacroix (1863), and Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847).

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