BIOLOGIST

Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot

1748 - 1831

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Louis Pierre Vieillot (10 May 1748, Yvetot – 24 August 1830, Sotteville-lès-Rouen) was a French ornithologist. Vieillot is the author of the first scientific descriptions and Linnaean names of a number of birds, including species he collected himself in the West Indies and North America and South American species discovered but not formally named by Félix de Azara and his translator Sonnini de Manoncourt. He was among the first ornithologists to study changes in plumage and one of the first to study live birds. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot has received more than 102,401 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot is the 405th most popular biologist (down from 228th in 2019), the 3,103rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,109th in 2019) and the 50th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot ranks 405 out of 1,097. Before him are Jean Cabanis, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Karl Möbius, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, Marie Stopes, and Carl Borivoj Presl. After him are Emil Christian Hansen, Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Karl Eichwald, Peter Artedi, C. L. Gloger, and Adrien-Henri de Jussieu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1748, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot ranks 20. Before him are Adamantios Korais, Benedict Joseph Labre, Dominique, comte de Cassini, Anders Sparrman, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, and William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire. After him are John Playfair, Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Martha Jefferson, Francesco Mario Pagano, Anne Seymour Damer, and Timur Shah Durrani. Among people deceased in 1831, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot ranks 38. Before him are Ryōkan, Vasily Golovnin, Franz Krommer, Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony, Ferenc Kazinczy, and Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz. After him are Jean-Louis Pons, Mariana Pineda, Sarah Siddons, Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, and Anton Delvig.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot ranks 3,103 out of 6,770. Before him are Claudin de Sermisy (1490), Thomas Corneille (1625), Hugues-Bernard Maret, duc de Bassano (1763), Anne Dacier (1645), André Prévost (1860), and Louis-Mathieu Molé (1781). After him are Emmanuel Frémiet (1824), Suzanne Curchod (1737), Jean-Sifrein Maury (1746), Pierre Étaix (1928), George Onslow (1784), and Albert Batteux (1919).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot ranks 50. Before him are Louis Claude Richard (1754), Pierre Magnol (1638), Antoine de Jussieu (1686), Achille Richard (1794), René Lesson (1794), and Félix Vicq-d'Azyr (1748). After him are Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797), Guillaume Rondelet (1507), Lucien Quélet (1832), Frédéric Cuvier (1773), Alain Bombard (1924), and Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (1770).

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