WRITER

Olivier de Serres

1539 - 1619

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Olivier de Serres (French pronunciation: [ɔlivje də sɛʁ]; 1539–1619) was a French author and soil scientist whose Théâtre d'Agriculture (1600) was the accepted textbook of French agriculture in the 17th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Olivier de Serres has received more than 48,210 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Olivier de Serres is the 4,391st most popular writer (down from 4,071st in 2019), the 4,133rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,772nd in 2019) and the 529th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Olivier de Serres ranks 4,391 out of 7,302Before him are Karl Leberecht Immermann, Manuel Machado, Garlieb Merkel, Arthur Golden, Raphael Holinshed, and Anne Bradstreet. After him are Robert Chambers, Franz von Schober, Mario Rigoni Stern, Roderich Menzel, Charles Brockden Brown, and Richard Steele.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1539, Olivier de Serres ranks 19Before him are Hasegawa Tōhaku, Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine, Salima Sultan Begum, Yi San-hae, Humphrey Gilbert, and Nicolò Donato. After him is Pierre Pithou. Among people deceased in 1619, Olivier de Serres ranks 21Before him are Stephen Pongracz, Melchior Grodziecki, Öküz Mehmed Pasha, Jagat Gosain, Nicholas Hilliard, and Richard Burbage. After him are Robert Peake the Elder, and Samuel Daniel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Olivier de Serres ranks 4,133 out of 6,770Before him are André Darrigade (1929), Bertrand Cantat (1964), Isaac Oliver (1556), Marcel Brillouin (1854), Patrick Gaillard (1952), and Joseph Avenol (1879). After him are Danièle Delorme (1926), Tristan Murail (1947), Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755), Benoît Magimel (1974), Jean-Marc Guillou (1945), and Jean Poiret (1926).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Olivier de Serres ranks 529Before him are Hervé Le Tellier (1957), Maurice Sachs (1906), Louise-Victorine Ackermann (1813), Louis Hémon (1880), Pierre Mac Orlan (1882), and Jean-Richard Bloch (1884). After him are Stanislas Julien (1797), Pierre Pithou (1539), Jakob Balde (1604), Pierre Emmanuel (1916), Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (1947), and François le Métel de Boisrobert (1592).