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 30,331 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Edmond Boissier is the 361st most popular biologist (down from 284th in 2019), the 265th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 226th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Swiss Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 361 out of 1,097. Before him are Louis Claude Richard, Joel Asaph Allen, Pierre Magnol, Antoine de Jussieu, Achille Richard, and William Jackson Hooker. After him are Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, Arthur Tansley, John Gould, Karl Koch, Robert Gallo, and John Hughlings Jackson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 42. Before him are Karel Hynek Mácha, Christen Købke, Oliver Winchester, Louise Colet, Margaret Fuller, and Ferdinand David. After him are Stanko Vraz, Alexandre Calame, Alexandre Herculano, Wilhelm, Duke of Urach, Norbert Burgmüller, and Julian Fontana. Among people deceased in 1885, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 41. Before him are Narcís Monturiol, Aga Khan II, Nikolay Kostomarov, Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, and Thomas A. Hendricks. After him are Hermann von Fehling, Thomas Andrews, Nicolás Avellaneda, Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville, Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval, and Amédée Courbet.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 265 out of 1,015. Before him are Abraham Trembley (1710), Ernst Brenner (1856), François-Alphonse Forel (1841), Louis Zutter (1865), Princess Elena of Romania (1950), and Giuseppe Motta (1871). After him are Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767), Domenico Trezzini (1670), Walter Hauser (1837), Lisa Della Casa (1919), Christoph Blocher (1940), and Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among biologists born in Switzerland, Pierre Edmond Boissier ranks 15. Before him are Albert von Kölliker (1817), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Carl Nägeli (1817), Josias Braun-Blanquet (1884), Abraham Trembley (1710), and François-Alphonse Forel (1841). After him are Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818), Carl Meissner (1800), Johann Bauhin (1541), Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (1829), Oswald Heer (1809), and Alfred Newton (1829).

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