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Alfred Moquin-Tandon

1804 - 1863

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Christian Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon (7 May 1804 – 15 April 1863) was a French naturalist and doctor. Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse. In 1850, he was sent by the French government to Corsica to study the island's flora. In 1853, he moved to Paris, later becoming director of the Jardin des Plantes and the Académie des Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Moquin-Tandon is the 830th most popular biologist (down from 734th in 2019), the 4,388th most popular biography from France (up from 4,408th in 2019) and the 115th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Alfred Moquin-Tandon ranks 830 out of 1,097. Before him are Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, Michele Tenore, Ernst Ahl, Thomas Hardwicke, Gilbert Thomas Burnett, and Charles Wallace Richmond. After him are John Gerard, Alfred Cogniaux, Osbert Salvin, Michael Sars, Robert Collett, and Richard Spruce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1804, Alfred Moquin-Tandon ranks 67. Before him are Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, Mykhailo Maksymovych, Julius Benedict, Johan Nicolai Madvig, Princess Ida of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, and William Stokes. After him are Peder Balke, Emma Smith, Fruto Chamorro, William Barton Rogers, József Bajza, and Jane Irwin Harrison. Among people deceased in 1863, Alfred Moquin-Tandon ranks 46. Before him are James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, Edward Robinson, Jane Pierce, Prince Frederick of Prussia, Josephine Kablick, and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. After him are Andrei Mureșanu, Michel Garicoïts, Manuel Basilio Bustamante, Charles Robert Cockerell, John F. Reynolds, and Juan Francisco Giró.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alfred Moquin-Tandon ranks 4,388 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Collignon (1877), Georges Beuchat (1910), Philippe Djian (1949), Jean Tardieu (1903), Ariane Ascaride (1954), and Jean Despeaux (1915). After him are Albert Rust (1953), Virginie Ledoyen (1976), Georges Buchard (1893), Guy Drut (1950), René Dubos (1901), and Michel Boisrond (1921).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Alfred Moquin-Tandon ranks 115. Before him are Michel Félix Dunal (1789), Émile Blanchard (1819), Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799), Jules Pierre Rambur (1801), Aimée Antoinette Camus (1879), and André Thouin (1746). After him are René Dubos (1901), Jean-Pierre Changeux (1936), Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1808), Jules Verreaux (1807), Édouard Ménétries (1802), and Édouard Louis Trouessart (1842).

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