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BIOLOGIST

Pierre Edmond Boissier

1810 - 1885

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Pierre Edmond Boissier (25 May 1810 Geneva – 25 September 1885 Valeyres-sous-Rances) was a Swiss prominent botanist, explorer and mathematician. He was the son of Jacques Boissier (1784-1857) and Caroline Butini (1786-1836), daughter of Pierre Butini (1759-1838) a well-known physician and naturalist from Geneva. With his sister, Valérie Boissier (1813-1894), he received a strict education with lessons delivered in Italian and Latin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Edmond Boissier has received more than 27,025 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Pierre Edmond Boissier is the 285th most popular biologist (up from 294th in 2019), the 226th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 223rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 285 out of 841Before him are Alexander von Middendorff, Marie Stopes, Johann Bauhin, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, and Vladimir Demikhov. After him are Wilhelm Peters, Nikolai Severtzov, John Hughlings Jackson, Othenio Abel, René Louiche Desfontaines, and Josif Pančić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 34Before him are Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre, Jules Perrot, Ferenc Erkel, Howard Staunton, Ole Bull, and Margaret Fuller. After him are Karel Hynek Mácha, Christen Købke, Hans Christian Lumbye, Wilhelm, Duke of Urach, Julian Fontana, and Peter Andreas Munch. Among people deceased in 1885, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 32Before him are George B. McClellan, Nikolay Danilevsky, Narcís Monturiol, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, and Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. After him are Nikolai Severtzov, Franz Abt, Thomas A. Hendricks, Nikolay Kostomarov, Charles Rogier, and Aga Khan II.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 226 out of 876Before him are Louis of Cyprus (1436), Eugène Grasset (1845), Jean-André Deluc (1727), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Pierre Jeanneret (1896), and Johann Bauhin (1541). After him are Johann Peter Hebel (1760), Andy Hug (1964), Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825), Anton Graff (1736), Matilda of Habsburg (1253), and Maurice Bavaud (1916).

Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 12Before him are Charles Bonnet (1720), Louis Agassiz (1807), Albert von Kölliker (1817), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), and Johann Bauhin (1541). After him are Carl Nägeli (1817), François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), Abraham Trembley (1710), Oswald Heer (1809), and Alfred Newton (1829).