BIOLOGIST

Édouard Ménétries

1802 - 1861

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Édouard Ménétries (Paris, France, 2 October 1802 – St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, 10 April 1861) was a French entomologist, zoologist, and herpetologist. He is best known as the founder of the Russian Entomological Society. Ménétries was born in Paris, and became a student of Georges Cuvier and Pierre André Latreille. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Édouard Ménétries is the 869th most popular biologist (down from 848th in 2019), the 4,506th most popular biography from France (up from 4,718th in 2019) and the 120th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Édouard Ménétries ranks 869 out of 1,097. Before him are Karel Domin, David Ho, Thomas Campbell Eyton, Adriana Hoffmann, Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller, and Filippo Parlatore. After him are Birbal Sahni, Wilfred Hudson Osgood, Hermann Harms, Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet, Reginald Punnett, and Charles Wyville Thomson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Édouard Ménétries ranks 56. Before him are Alexander Odoevsky, Richard Thomas Lowe, Sylvain Van de Weyer, Charles-Mathias Simons, Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, and Nicholas Wiseman. After him are Dorothea Dix, Lydia Maria Child, Manuel María Lombardini, David Octavius Hill, Andrei Stackenschneider, and Miguel de San Román. Among people deceased in 1861, Édouard Ménétries ranks 59. Before him are Abel de Pujol, Ippolito Nievo, Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer, Michele Tenore, José María Obando, and Malalai of Maiwand. After him are Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, Manuel Antônio de Almeida, Jorge Córdova, José María Linares, Robert O'Hara Burke, and Eliphalet Remington.

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In France

Among people born in France, Édouard Ménétries ranks 4,506 out of 6,770. Before him are Edmund Dulac (1882), René Bazin (1853), Francis Blanche (1921), Charles Perrin (1875), Medhi Benatia (1987), and Serhou Guirassy (1996). After him are Edmund, Earl of Rutland (1443), Loïc Wacquant (1960), Georges Verriest (1909), Jean Vilar (1912), Norbert Eschmann (1933), and Paul Chocque (1910).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Édouard Ménétries ranks 120. Before him are André Thouin (1746), Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804), René Dubos (1901), Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936), Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1808), and Jules Verreaux (1807). After him are Édouard Louis Trouessart (1842), Théodore Monod (1902), Paul Henri Lecomte (1856), Palisot de Beauvois (1752), François Gagnepain (1866), and Gaston Bonnier (1853).

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