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BIOLOGIST

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

1772 - 1844

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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (15 April 1772 – 19 June 1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories. Geoffroy's scientific views had a transcendental flavor (unlike Lamarck's materialistic views) and were similar to those of German morphologists like Lorenz Oken. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire has received more than 230,197 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire is the 81st most popular biologist (down from 58th in 2019), the 914th most popular biography from France (down from 788th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Biologist.

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire is most famous for his contributions to comparative anatomy and the theory of recapitulation.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 81 out of 841. Before him are Daniel Bovet, Philip Miller, Tomas Lindahl, Julian Huxley, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, and Ulisse Aldrovandi. After him are Jan Swammerdam, Gabriele Falloppio, Jean Dausset, Carolus Clusius, Alfred Hershey, and Elizabeth Blackburn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1772, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 11. Before him are Friedrich Schlegel, Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Ram Mohan Roy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, and Nachman of Breslov. After him are Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, Marie Anne Lenormand, Henri de la Rochejaquelein, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, and Johann Nepomuk Maelzel. Among people deceased in 1844, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 10. Before him are Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Joseph Smith, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Ivan Krylov. After him are Ching Shih, Charles Nodier, Flora Tristan, Jernej Kopitar, Princess Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily, and Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 914 out of 6,011. Before him are Claude Chappe (1763), Charles François Dumouriez (1739), Antoine Arnauld (1612), Maurice Druon (1918), Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (1480), and Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657). After him are Joan II, Countess of Burgundy (1292), Philippe Ariès (1914), Michael Lonsdale (1931), Pierre Méchain (1744), René Clément (1913), and Edgar Morin (1921).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 13. Before him are René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748). After him are Jean Dausset (1916), Carolus Clusius (1525), André Michel Lwoff (1902), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), and Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737).

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