BIOLOGIST

Adelbert von Chamisso

1781 - 1838

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Adelbert von Chamisso (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdl̩bɛʁt fɔn ʃaˈmɪso]; 30 January 1781 – 21 August 1838) was a German poet, writer and botanist. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso (or Chamissot) de Boncourt, a name referring to the family estate at Boncourt. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adelbert von Chamisso is the 70th most popular biologist (down from 62nd in 2019), the 628th most popular biography from France (up from 758th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Biologist.

Adelbert von Chamisso is most famous for his book, "Peter Schlemihl," which tells the story of a man who sells his shadow to the devil.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Adelbert von Chamisso ranks 70 out of 1,097. Before him are Daniel Bovet, Hugo de Vries, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Hugo Theorell, Dian Fossey, and George Shaw. After him are Günter Blobel, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Elizabeth Blackburn, Georg Forster, Alexander Oparin, and Michael Houghton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Adelbert von Chamisso ranks 8. Before him are Eugène de Beauharnais, Bernard Bolzano, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Siméon Denis Poisson, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, and René Laennec. After him are David Brewster, Stamford Raffles, William I of Württemberg, Achim von Arnim, Anton Diabelli, and Frederica of Baden. Among people deceased in 1838, Adelbert von Chamisso ranks 3. Before him are Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, and William Clark. After him are Lorenzo Da Ponte, Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Johanna Schopenhauer, Pierre Louis Dulong, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Bernard Courtois, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, and Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy.

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In France

Among people born in France, Adelbert von Chamisso ranks 628 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles de Foucauld (1858), Élisabeth of France (1764), Luc Besson (1959), Suzanne Valadon (1865), Jules Michelet (1798), and Luigi Lucheni (1873). After him are Pierre de Ronsard (1524), Annie Girardot (1931), Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627), Léon Walras (1834), Queen Anne of Romania (1923), and Christine of France (1606).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Adelbert von Chamisso ranks 13. Before him are André Michel Lwoff (1902), Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (1947), François Jacob (1920), Roger Guillemin (1924), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), and Jean Dausset (1916). After him are Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), René Lesson (1794), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Pierre André Latreille (1762), and Jean-Henri Fabre (1823).

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