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Charles Alexandre Lesueur

1778 - 1846

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Charles Alexandre Lesueur (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl alɛksɑ̃dʁ ləsɥœʁ]; 1 January 1778 in Le Havre – 12 December 1846 in Le Havre) was a French naturalist, artist, and explorer. He was a prolific natural-history collector, gathering many type specimens in Australia, Southeast Asia, and North America, and was also responsible for describing numerous species, including the spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera), smooth softshell turtle (A. mutica), and common map turtle (Graptemys geographica). Both Mount Lesueur and Lesueur National Park in Western Australia are named in his honor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Alexandre Lesueur is the 663rd most popular biologist (up from 725th in 2019), the 3,860th most popular biography from France (up from 4,396th in 2019) and the 95th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Alexandre Lesueur ranks 663 out of 1,097. Before him are Jacob Sturm, Pál Kitaibel, Ferdinand Albin Pax, Paul Nurse, Francisco Hernández de Toledo, and Archibald Reiss. After him are Hipólito Ruiz López, Edward Forbes, Heinz Christian Pander, Eugene Odum, Johann Gerhard König, and Amotz Zahavi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1778, Charles Alexandre Lesueur ranks 39. Before him are Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Carl Bernhard von Trinius, Sahle Dengel, Joseph Aspdin, Anders Sandøe Ørsted, and Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen. After him are Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł, William Hazlitt, Georg Anton Friedrich Ast, Mariano Moreno, José de la Mar, and Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac. Among people deceased in 1846, Charles Alexandre Lesueur ranks 25. Before him are Maria Severa Onofriana, Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, Étienne Pivert de Senancour, Alexander Chavchavadze, Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia, and Bagyidaw. After him are Wilhelm Küchelbecker, W. J. Coffee, Jan Frans Willems, Jane Irwin Harrison, Dwarkanath Tagore, and Thomas Clarkson.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Alexandre Lesueur ranks 3,860 out of 6,770. Before him are Jehan Buhan (1912), François Marty (1904), Édouard Mendy (1992), Maurice Godelier (1934), Gérard Lanvin (1950), and Jane Dieulafoy (1851). After him are Jean Cruveilhier (1791), Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1090), François de Laval (1623), Joseph Ducreux (1735), Claude Pouillet (1790), and Laurent Terzieff (1935).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Charles Alexandre Lesueur ranks 95. Before 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). After him are Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715), Auguste Duméril (1812), Jean de Thévenot (1633), Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759), Paul Bert (1833), and Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856).

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