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Joseph Decaisne

1807 - 1882

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Joseph Decaisne (7 March 1807 – 8 January 1882) was a French botanist and agronomist. He became an aide-naturaliste to Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797–1853), who served as the chair of rural botany. It was during this time that he began to study plants brought back by various travelers like those of Victor Jacquemont (1801–1832) from Asia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Decaisne has received more than 27,521 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Joseph Decaisne is the 10,750th most popular politician (up from 12,646th in 2019), the 426th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 511th in 2019) and the 97th most popular Belgian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Joseph Decaisne ranks 10,750 out of 19,576. Before him are William VI, Duke of Aquitaine, Svetlana Medvedeva, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, George McGovern, Jens Böhrnsen, and Władysław Bartoszewski. After him are Sehetepkare Intef, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel, Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, Marie I, Countess of Boulogne, Awad Hamed al-Bandar, and Abderrahmane Farès.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1807, Joseph Decaisne ranks 29. Before him are Hermann Burmeister, Napoleon Orda, Auguste Laurent, Jónas Hallgrímsson, Jane Digby, and Robert Blum. After him are Arnold Henry Guyot, Adrien-François Servais, Ignatius Brianchaninov, Napoléon Henri Reber, Théophile Thoré-Bürger, and Friedrich Theodor Vischer. Among people deceased in 1882, Joseph Decaisne ranks 48. Before him are Friedrich von Lütke, Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, François-Auguste Biard, Auguste Barbier, Ferdinand Reich, and Charles Blanc. After him are John William Draper, Johann Benedict Listing, Đuro Daničić, Giovanni Lanza, Carl Robert Jakobson, and Theodor Kullak.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Joseph Decaisne ranks 426 out of 1,190. Before him are Axel Witsel (1989), Wim Mertens (1953), Paul de Man (1919), Stan Ockers (1920), Maurice De Waele (1896), and Sigiswald Kuijken (1944). After him are Daniel Van Buyten (1978), Jean Servais (1910), Alfred Stevens (1823), Kevin De Bruyne (1991), Annie Cordy (1928), and Philippe de Monte (1521).

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Among POLITICIANS In Belgium

Among politicians born in Belgium, Joseph Decaisne ranks 97. Before him are Godfrey I, Count of Namur (1068), Victor Boin (1886), Alof de Wignacourt (1547), Mark Eyskens (1933), Hubert Pierlot (1883), and Paul Vanden Boeynants (1919). After him are Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria (1938), Gaston Eyskens (1905), Hélène Dutrieu (1877), Ferdinand de Marsin (1656), Jean Duvieusart (1900), and Joseph Lebeau (1794).

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