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Nicaise Auguste Desvaux

1784 - 1856

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Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (28 August 1784 – 12 July 1856) was a French botanist. From 1816 he taught classes in Angers, where from 1817 to 1838 he served as director of its botanical garden. He described the botanical genera Neslia, Mycenastrum, Rostkovia and Didymoglossum. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicaise Auguste Desvaux has received more than 15,781 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Nicaise Auguste Desvaux is the 816th most popular biologist, the 4,650th most popular biography from France and the 117th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nicaise Auguste Desvaux ranks 816 out of 1,097. Before him are Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey, Alfred Cogniaux, Gottlieb Haberlandt, Félix de Avelar Brotero, George Edwards, and Edward Donovan. After him are Gaston Bonnier, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Carl Bolle, Jules Pierre Rambur, and Charles Wallace Richmond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Nicaise Auguste Desvaux ranks 45. Before him are Louise Lehzen, Leopoldo Nobili, Christopher Hansteen, Joseph Bové, Charles Dupin, and José Tadeo Monagas. After him are José María Pérez de Urdininea, Juan Mora Fernández, William Yarrell, Leigh Hunt, and George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland. Among people deceased in 1856, Nicaise Auguste Desvaux ranks 51. Before him are Michel Félix Dunal, Ivan Kireyevsky, Johan August Wahlberg, Joseph Meyer, Frederick William Beechey, and John M. Clayton. After him are William Yarrell, Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, Thomas Doughty, John Eaton, George Don, and John M. Berrien.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicaise Auguste Desvaux ranks 4,650 out of 6,770. Before him are Robert Hirsch (1925), Bernard Darniche (1942), Jules Koundé (1998), Olivier Grouillard (1958), Anton Grasser (1891), and Gilles Perrault (1931). After him are Maryse Bastié (1898), Teresa de la Parra (1889), Gaston Bonnier (1853), Jacques Jasmin (1798), André Gaudin (1874), and Charles Berling (1958).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Nicaise Auguste Desvaux ranks 117. Before him are Frédéric de Lafresnaye (1783), Sabin Berthelot (1794), Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799), Jacques Miller (1931), Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799), and Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757). After him are Gaston Bonnier (1853), Jules Pierre Rambur (1801), Paul Henri Lecomte (1856), Palisot de Beauvois (1752), Édouard Ménétries (1802), and Pierre Chambon (1931).

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