BIOLOGIST

Adrien René Franchet

1834 - 1900

Photo of Adrien René Franchet

Icon of person Adrien René Franchet

Adrien René Franchet (21 April 1834 in Pezou – 15 February 1900 in Paris) was a French botanist, based at the Paris Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. He is noted for his extensive work describing the flora of China and Japan, based on the collections made by French Catholic missionaries in China, Armand David, Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, Paul Guillaume Farges, Jean-André Soulié, and others. He was the taxonomic author of many plants, including a significant number of species from the genera Primula and Rhododendron. The following genera are named in his honor: Franchetella, family Sapotaceae, named by Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adrien René Franchet is the 607th most popular biologist (up from 634th in 2019), the 3,659th most popular biography from France (up from 4,065th in 2019) and the 88th most popular French Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Adrien René Franchet by language

Loading...

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Adrien René Franchet ranks 607 out of 1,097. Before him are Antoine Risso, Otto Stapf, Władysław Taczanowski, Jon E. Ahlquist, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps, and Jules Émile Planchon. After him are Émile Duclaux, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, Pieter Willem Korthals, Fritz Schaudinn, Franz Steindachner, and Émile Oustalet.

Most Popular Biologists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Adrien René Franchet ranks 65. Before him are John Gilbert Baker, William Chester Minor, Frederick DuCane Godman, Todor Burmov, Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe, and Majid bin Said of Zanzibar. After him are Vilém Blodek, Franz Steindachner, Hermann Usener, Étienne Laspeyres, Valtazar Bogišić, and Friedrich Tietjen. Among people deceased in 1900, Adrien René Franchet ranks 66. Before him are Sergei Korsakoff, Francišak Bahuševič, Alexandre Falguière, Rudolf Charousek, Johan Kjeldahl, and Edmond de Sélys Longchamps. After him are Jasper Francis Cropsey, Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, James Edward Keeler, Jean Frédéric Frenet, Arsenio Martínez Campos, and Karl Doppler.

Others Born in 1834

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1900

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In France

Among people born in France, Adrien René Franchet ranks 3,659 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Renard (1847), Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813), Louis-Marie Billé (1938), Jules Émile Planchon (1823), Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883), and Maurice Feltin (1883). After him are Micheline Ostermeyer (1922), André Cardinal Destouches (1672), Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (1851), Émile Duclaux (1840), Henri Fabre (1882), and Louis Lumière (1864).

Others born in France

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Adrien René Franchet ranks 88. Before him are Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (1839), Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799), Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810), Antoine Risso (1777), Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813), and Jules Émile Planchon (1823). After him are Émile Duclaux (1840), Émile Oustalet (1844), Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757), Alfred Grandidier (1836), Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1723), and Charles Frédéric Girard (1822).

French born Biologists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous