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René Just Haüy

1743 - 1822

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René Just Haüy (French pronunciation: [aɥi]) FRS MWS FRSE (28 February 1743 – 1 June 1822) was a French priest and mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame. Due to his innovative work on crystal structure and his four-volume Traité de Minéralogie (1801), he is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Crystallography". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Just Haüy has received more than 81,572 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). René Just Haüy is the 167th most popular social activist (down from 160th in 2019), the 1,499th most popular biography from France (down from 1,478th in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Social Activist.

René Descartes is most famous for his philosophical writings, especially his Meditations on First Philosophy.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, René Just Haüy ranks 167 out of 840. Before him are Alexander Pechersky, Mordechai Vanunu, Maria Spiridonova, Frederick Douglass, Rigoberta Menchú, and Otoya Yamaguchi. After him are Kittur Chennamma, Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Vladimir Bukovsky, Emilie Schindler, Ilya Ulyanov, and Sojourner Truth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, René Just Haüy ranks 15. Before him are Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Toussaint Louverture, Nicolai Abildgaard, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Edmund Cartwright. After him are William I, Elector of Hesse, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, Gavrila Derzhavin, Joseph Banks, Giuseppe Gazzaniga, and Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova. Among people deceased in 1822, René Just Haüy ranks 12. Before him are Claude Louis Berthollet, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Giovanni Battista Venturi, and Paolo Ruffini. After him are Valentin Haüy, Karl August von Hardenberg, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Jean-Robert Argand, Sophie de Condorcet, and Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Just Haüy ranks 1,499 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri, Count of Paris (1908), Yolande of Valois (1434), François Louis, Prince of Conti (1664), Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709), Eugène Atget (1857), and Michel Chasles (1793). After him are Paloma Picasso (1949), Bernard Courtois (1777), Sextus Afranius Burrus (1), Jean Tirole (1953), Henri, Prince of Condé (1552), and Marcel Dassault (1892).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In France

Among social activists born in France, René Just Haüy ranks 11. Before him are Louise Michel (1830), René Cassin (1887), Léon Jouhaux (1879), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Flora Tristan (1803), and Jacques Roux (1752). After him are Abbé Pierre (1912), Balthasar Gérard (1557), Ravachol (1859), Guillaume Cale (1350), Édouard René de Laboulaye (1811), and Marina Ginestà (1919).

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