WRITER

Paul Du Chaillu

1835 - 1903

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Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (July 31, 1831 (disputed) – April 29, 1903) was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Du Chaillu has received more than 113,582 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Paul Du Chaillu is the 4,522nd most popular writer (down from 4,137th in 2019), the 4,207th most popular biography from France (down from 3,798th in 2019) and the 538th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

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  • 48.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Wild life under the equator
Accessible book, Description and travel, Juvenile literature
1868
The land of the midnight sun
Description and travel
1881
The country of the dwarfs
Negrillos, Juvenile literature, Description and travel
1871
Explorations and adventures in equatorial Africa
Accessible book, Description and travel, Natural history
1861
The viking age
Accessible book, Antiquities, Civilization
1889

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 4,522 out of 7,302. Before him are Murad Wilfried Hofmann, C. J. Cherryh, Alfredo Panzini, Martin Suter, Dmitry Gulia, and Amy Lowell. After him are E. E. Smith, Elisabetta Dami, Leopold Andrian, Quim Monzó, Timothy Zahn, and Wen Yiduo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 67. Before him are Antanas Baranauskas, Justo Rufino Barrios, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Alexander Litovchenko, Tommaso Salvadori, and Louis-Antoine Ranvier. After him are Kārlis Baumanis, Germanus V of Constantinople, Hashimoto Gahō, Eduardo Pondal, Osbert Salvin, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Among people deceased in 1903, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 59. Before him are Frederick Law Olmsted, Lina Sandell, Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Konstantinos Paspatis, Petko Karavelov, and Princess Leopoldine of Baden. After him are Victor Meirelles, Henri Alexis Brialmont, František Ladislav Rieger, Robert Planquette, Nicolaas Beets, and István Bittó.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 4,207 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis Henri Boussenard (1847), Claude Mauriac (1914), Fernand de Langle de Cary (1849), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1957), Mathieu Flamini (1984), and Marielle Goitschel (1945). After him are Marguerite Laugier (1896), Henri Duveyrier (1840), Rémi Gaillard (1975), Justine Triet (1978), Marguerite Broquedis (1893), and Georges Courteline (1858).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 538. Before him are Jakob Balde (1604), Pierre Emmanuel (1916), Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (1947), François le Métel de Boisrobert (1592), Louis Henri Boussenard (1847), and Claude Mauriac (1914). After him are Georges Courteline (1858), René Guillot (1900), Ernst Stadler (1883), Philippe Hériat (1898), Francis de Miomandre (1880), and Marcel Boulenger (1873).

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