BIOLOGIST

Mathurin Jacques Brisson

1723 - 1806

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Mathurin Jacques Brisson (French pronunciation: [matyʁɛ̃ ʒak bʁisɔ̃]; 30 April 1723 – 23 June 1806) was a French zoologist and natural philosopher. Brisson was born on 30 April 1723 at Fontenay-le-Comte in the Vendée department of western France. His parents wished him to take ecclesiastic orders but in 1747 he abandoned his studies, and from 1749 was employed by the wealthy French naturalist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur as the curator of a large private collection of objects related to natural history that de Réaumur kept at his ancestral home at Réaumur in the Vendée.Brisson became interested in the classification of animals and was influenced by the works of Carl Linnaeus and Jacob Theodor Klein. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mathurin Jacques Brisson has received more than 171,776 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Mathurin Jacques Brisson is the 188th most popular biologist (up from 343rd in 2019), the 1,641st most popular biography from France (up from 2,838th in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Biologist.

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  • 170k

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  • 58.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Mathurin Jacques Brisson has had the most page views in the with 17,997 views, followed by Spanish (3,123), and French (2,056). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Latin (110.83%), Catalan (59.54%), and Macedonian (51.46%)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Mathurin Jacques Brisson ranks 188 out of 1,097. Before him are Georg Wilhelm Steller, Peter Medawar, Stephen Jay Gould, Armand David, Jeffrey C. Hall, and Ian Wilmut. After him are Eva Ekeblad, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Daniel Nathans, Henry Walter Bates, George Shaw, and Asa Gray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Mathurin Jacques Brisson ranks 9. Before him are Frederick V of Denmark, Joshua Reynolds, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Carl Friedrich Abel, Adam Ferguson, and Prithvi Narayan Shah. After him are Johann Bernhard Basedow, Jean-François Marmontel, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, and Mir Taqi Mir. Among people deceased in 1806, Mathurin Jacques Brisson ranks 22. Before him are Nicolas Leblanc, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Michel Adanson, and Mungo Park. After him are Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Pavel Tsitsianov, Shah Alam II, Vicente Martín y Soler, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, and George Stubbs.

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In France

Among people born in France, Mathurin Jacques Brisson ranks 1,641 out of 6,770. Before him are Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552), Élie Cartan (1869), Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489), Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808), Remy de Gourmont (1858), and Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle (1775). After him are Georges Canguilhem (1904), Bixente Lizarazu (1969), Prince Jean, Duke of Guise (1874), Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914), Robert-François Damiens (1715), and Germaine Dulac (1882).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Mathurin Jacques Brisson ranks 25. Before him are Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Michel Adanson (1727), Pierre André Latreille (1762), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), and Armand David (1826). After him are Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Pierre Belon (1517), Antoine Béchamp (1816), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), and Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756).

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