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BIOLOGIST

René Lesson

1794 - 1849

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René Primevère Lesson (20 March 1794 – 28 April 1849) was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Lesson has received more than 54,380 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. René Lesson is the 264th most popular biologist (down from 216th in 2019), the 2,380th most popular biography from France (down from 1,943rd in 2019) and the 34th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, René Lesson ranks 264 out of 841Before him are Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Johann Hermann, Eduard Rüppell, Wilder Penfield, Alexander Georg von Bunge, and Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle. After him are Stephan Endlicher, Clair Cameron Patterson, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, June Almeida, Fritz Müller, and Alain Bombard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, René Lesson ranks 18Before him are Ami Boué, Léon Cogniet, Eduard Rüppell, Friedrich Christian Diez, Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt, and Jacques Collin de Plancy. After him are Eilhard Mitscherlich, Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Mirza Shafi Vazeh, Pyotr Chaadayev, and Johann Heinrich von Mädler. Among people deceased in 1849, René Lesson ranks 32Before him are Delphine LaLaurie, Dionisio Aguado y García, Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia, Quatremère de Quincy, Thomas Robert Bugeaud, and Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este. After him are Stephan Endlicher, Angelica Catalani, Duchess Maria Elisabeth in Bavaria, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Carlo Rossi, and Conradin Kreutzer.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Lesson ranks 2,380 out of 6,011Before him are Eugène Fromentin (1820), Elena Poniatowska (1932), Jean Lefebvre (1919), Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788), Yolanda of Courtenay (1197), and Georges Lautner (1926). After him are Édouard Branly (1844), Odo de St Amand (1110), Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois (1749), Anne Henriette of Bavaria (1648), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), and Eugène Marin Labiche (1815).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, René Lesson ranks 34Before him are Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748), Félix d'Herelle (1873), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), and Johann Hermann (1738). After him are Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), Alain Bombard (1924), Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801), René Louiche Desfontaines (1750), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), and Charles Plumier (1646).