BIOLOGIST

Pierre Belon

1517 - 1564

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Pierre Belon (1517–1564) was a French traveller, naturalist, writer and diplomat. Like many others of the Renaissance period, he studied and wrote on a range of topics including ichthyology, ornithology, botany, comparative anatomy, architecture and Egyptology. He is sometimes known as Pierre Belon du Mans, or, in the Latin in which his works appeared, as Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Belon has received more than 88,269 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Pierre Belon is the 206th most popular biologist (up from 215th in 2019), the 1,776th most popular biography from France (up from 1,966th in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Pierre Belon ranks 206 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles Bell, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Oldfield Thomas, Adam Afzelius, Waldemar Haffkine, and J. B. S. Haldane. After him are Mikhail Tsvet, Friedrich Parrot, Johann Reinhold Forster, Thomas Browne, Wilbur Scoville, and Tomitaro Makino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1517, Pierre Belon ranks 8. Before him are Emperor Ōgimachi, Gioseffo Zarlino, Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, and Li Shizhen. After him are Rembert Dodoens, Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Jacques Pelletier du Mans. Among people deceased in 1564, Pierre Belon ranks 6. Before him are Michelangelo, John Calvin, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, Andreas Vesalius, and Matrakçı Nasuh. After him are Rani Durgavati, Sabina of Bavaria, Charles Estienne, Giovanni da Udine, Theodore Bibliander, and Martim Afonso de Sousa.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Belon ranks 1,776 out of 6,770. Before him are Nicolas de Largillière (1656), Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale (1822), Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753), Anne Desclos (1907), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), and Lambert Wilson (1958). After him are Joseph Fesch (1763), Joseph Bertrand (1822), Hervé Villechaize (1943), Charles II, Duke of Bourbon (1434), Julian the Hospitaller (700), and Charles, Duke of Brittany (1319).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Pierre Belon ranks 27. Before him are Michel Adanson (1727), Pierre André Latreille (1762), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Armand David (1826), Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806). After him are Antoine Béchamp (1816), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756), René Louiche Desfontaines (1750), and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777).

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