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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 105,500 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Paul Du Chaillu is the 4,150th most popular writer (up from 4,412th in 2019), the 3,814th most popular biography from France (down from 3,750th in 2019) and the 500th most popular French Writer.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.41

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  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 4,150 out of 5,755Before him are Angela Sommer-Bodenburg, Michel Deguy, I. A. L. Diamond, Rodolfo Walsh, Fedde Schurer, and Pepetela. After him are Platon Oyunsky, Wen Yiduo, Ivan Shmelyov, Sarah Kane, Alan Paton, and Ion Druță.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 64Before him are Rain-in-the-Face, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, Germanus V of Constantinople, Désirée Artôt, Manuel Quintana, and Justo Rufino Barrios. After him are Tommaso Salvadori, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Hashimoto Gahō, Eduardo Pondal, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Ramón Barros Luco. Among people deceased in 1903, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 58Before him are Emily Warren Roebling, Konstantinos Paspatis, Henri Alexis Brialmont, George Gissing, Girolamo de Rada, and Gustav Radde. After him are Victor Meirelles, Petko Karavelov, Robert Planquette, Nicolaas Beets, František Ladislav Rieger, and István Bittó.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 3,814 out of 6,011Before him are Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), Christophe Dugarry (1972), Paul Paray (1886), Michel Deguy (1930), Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747), and François de Tournon (1489). After him are Christophe Gans (1960), Louis Buffet (1818), Jean Bouin (1888), Daniel Morelon (1944), Victor Baltard (1805), and Jeannie Longo (1958).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 500Before him are Guillaume Musso (1974), Olivier de Serres (1539), Marcel Arland (1899), Claude Aveline (1901), Abel Bonnard (1883), and Michel Deguy (1930). After him are François Cavanna (1923), François le Métel de Boisrobert (1592), Johann Fischart (1546), Georges Courteline (1858), Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (1947), and Hervé Guibert (1955).