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Alcide d'Orbigny

1802 - 1857

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Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology. D'Orbigny was born in Couëron (Loire-Atlantique), the son of a ship's physician and amateur naturalist. The family moved to La Rochelle in 1820, where his interest in natural history was developed while studying the marine fauna and especially the microscopic creatures that he named "foraminiferans". In Paris he became a disciple of the geologist Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (1777–1861) and Georges Cuvier. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alcide d'Orbigny is the 19th most popular archaeologist (up from 21st in 2019), the 1,214th most popular biography from France (up from 1,550th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Alcide d'Orbigny ranks 19 out of 151. Before him are Nynetjer, V. Gordon Childe, Isdal Woman, George Smith, Aurel Stein, and Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli. After him are Zahi Hawass, Karl Richard Lepsius, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, Oscar Montelius, Khaemweset, and Louis Leakey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Alcide d'Orbigny ranks 14. Before him are Miguel I of Portugal, Edwin Landseer, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Wilhelm Hauff, Charles Wheatstone, and Antoine Jérôme Balard. After him are Pavel Nakhimov, Hermann Goldschmidt, Nikolaus Lenau, Heinrich Gustav Magnus, Husein Gradaščević, and Germain Henri Hess. Among people deceased in 1857, Alcide d'Orbigny ranks 17. Before him are Hinrich Lichtenstein, Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, Francis Beaufort, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Louis Jacques Thénard, and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff. After him are Gulab Singh, Johan Christian Dahl, Josef Ressel, Mangal Pandey, Marquis de Custine, and Achille Devéria.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alcide d'Orbigny ranks 1,214 out of 6,770. Before him are Henry I of Navarre (1244), Tarrare (1772), Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey (1754), Armand Guillaumin (1841), Anne de Montmorency (1493), and Florestan I, Prince of Monaco (1785). After him are Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy (1756), Albert Marquet (1875), Nicolas Chauvin (1790), Jacques Clément (1567), Alfred de Vigny (1797), and Jean-Claude Trichet (1942).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, Alcide d'Orbigny ranks 2. Before him are Jean-François Champollion (1790). After him are Austen Henry Layard (1817), Paul Pelliot (1878), André Leroi-Gourhan (1911), Henri Breuil (1877), Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), André Parrot (1901), Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), François Bordes (1919), Victor Loret (1859), and Jean-François Séguier (1703).

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