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Auguste Chevalier

1873 - 1956

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Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier (June 1873, in Domfront – June 1956, in Paris) was a French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of French colonial empire in Africa that included Côte d'Ivoire. He also explored and collected plants in South America and tropical Asia. Chevalier was a prolific contributor to the knowledge of African plants, studying forest trees and their woods, grasses, and agricultural plants of the continent. Unlike other botanists who studied the plants of tropical Africa, Chevalier also ranged to the floral regions of the Sahara. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Auguste Chevalier is the 408th most popular biologist (down from 328th in 2024), the 2,698th most popular biography from France (down from 2,678th in 2019) and the 48th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Auguste Chevalier ranks 408 out of 1,097. Before him are Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre, Harold E. Varmus, Lev Berg, Heinrich Anton de Bary, June Almeida, and Georg August Goldfuss. After him are Philibert Commerson, Achille Valenciennes, Pierre Magnol, Eugène Simon, Arthur Tansley, and John Needham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Auguste Chevalier ranks 80. Before him are Joseph Paul-Boncour, Rudolf Rocker, Hasan Prishtina, Richard Wilhelm, Sante Geronimo Caserio, and Kyōka Izumi. After him are Carl Flesch, Georges Theunis, Iuliu Maniu, Gustaf John Ramstedt, Nureddin Pasha, and Louis Feuillade. Among people deceased in 1956, Auguste Chevalier ranks 90. Before him are Alexander Korda, Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Mikheil Gelovani, Ernst Robert Curtius, Alexander Fadeyev, and Israel Zolli. After him are Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia, André Marty, Carl Brockelmann, Jimmie Angel, and Clifford Brown.

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In France

Among people born in France, Auguste Chevalier ranks 2,698 out of 6,770. Before him are Michel Petrucciani (1962), Léon Charles Thévenin (1857), Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (1716), Claude Zidi (1934), Felice Pasquale Baciocchi (1762), and Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1629). After him are Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (1328), Christophe Pierre (1946), Emanuel Ungaro (1933), Henri Dupuy de Lôme (1816), Bruno Metsu (1954), and Adolphe Nourrit (1802).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Auguste Chevalier ranks 48. Before him are Antoine Béchamp (1816), Jean René Constant Quoy (1790), Charles Plumier (1646), Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801), Louis Claude Richard (1754), and Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752). After him are Philibert Commerson (1727), Achille Valenciennes (1794), Pierre Magnol (1638), Eugène Simon (1848), Paul Gervais (1816), and Félix Vicq-d'Azyr (1748).

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