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Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest

1784 - 1838

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Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (6 March 1784 – 4 June 1838) was a French zoologist and author. He was the son of Nicolas Desmarest and the father of Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest is the 231st most popular biologist (up from 290th in 2019), the 1,638th most popular biography from France (up from 2,397th in 2019) and the 30th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest ranks 231 out of 1,097. Before him are Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, Temple Grandin, Waldemar Haffkine, John James Audubon, Othenio Abel, and Anders Sparrman. After him are Ana Aslan, Peter Forsskål, Albert Günther, Stephen Jay Gould, Theodor Escherich, and Rudolf Vrba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest ranks 19. Before him are Leigh Hunt, Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel, Leo von Klenze, François Rude, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, and Friedrich Kalkbrenner. After him are Peter von Cornelius, Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Dionisio Aguado y García, Ferdinand Ries, and Fructuoso Rivera. Among people deceased in 1838, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest ranks 11. Before him are Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Johanna Schopenhauer, Pierre Louis Dulong, Ivan Kotliarevsky, and Bernard Courtois. After him are Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Frédéric Cuvier, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Ferdinand Ries, Hussein Dey, and Bernhard Crusell.

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In France

Among people born in France, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest ranks 1,638 out of 6,770. Before him are Louise Labé (1524), Alain Cuny (1908), Joan I, Countess of Auvergne (1326), Michel Bouquet (1925), Lucien Petit-Breton (1882), and Philippe Soupault (1897). After him are André Jolivet (1905), Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688), Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735), Étienne François, duc de Choiseul (1719), Aymon, Count of Savoy (1291), and Charlotte Bonaparte (1802).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest ranks 30. Before him are Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Armand David (1826), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Michel Adanson (1727), and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806). After him are Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), Frédéric Cuvier (1773), Pierre Belon (1517), Johann Hermann (1738), André Marie Constant Duméril (1774), and René Louiche Desfontaines (1750).

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