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Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle

1746 - 1800

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Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl lwi leʁitje də bʁytɛl]; 15 June 1746 – 18 August 1800) was an 18th-century French botanist and civil servant. Born into an affluent upper-class Parisian family, connections with the French Royal Court secured him the position of Superintendent of Parisian Waters and Forests at the age of twenty-six. In this capacity, L'Héritier conducted various studies of native trees and shrubs, also gaining interest in exotic flora. The standard author abbreviation L'Hér. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle is the 507th most popular biologist (up from 514th in 2019), the 3,194th most popular biography from France (up from 3,629th in 2019) and the 66th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle ranks 507 out of 1,097. Before him are Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Achille Richard, William Hudson, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Dmitry Belyayev, and Pehr Kalm. After him are Christian von Steven, Robert H. MacArthur, Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Johann Jakob Heckel, and Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1746, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle ranks 27. Before him are François-André Vincent, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, and Antonio Rosetti. After him are Jean-Sifrein Maury, William Curtis, Joachim Heinrich Campe, Bernardo de Gálvez, Charles Cameron, and André Thouin. Among people deceased in 1800, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle ranks 21. Before him are Johann Hermann, John Blair Jr., François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, Jean-Étienne Championnet, Michał Kazimierz Ogiński, and Joseph de Guignes. After him are Koca Yusuf Pasha, Friedrich Gilly, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, William Cowper, Michael Denis, and Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle ranks 3,194 out of 6,770. Before him are Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry (1828), Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835), Olivier Martinez (1966), Bertha of Kent (550), Jacques Pills (1906), and Jean Richepin (1849). After him are Pierre Daniel Huet (1630), Firmin Abauzit (1679), Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert (1796), Maria Deraismes (1828), André Gobert (1890), and Sandrine Bonnaire (1967).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle ranks 66. Before him are Lucien Quélet (1832), Gabriel Bibron (1805), Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794), Guillaume Rondelet (1507), Achille Richard (1794), and Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835). After him are François Marie Daudin (1776), Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (1770), Charles Chamberland (1851), Sébastien Vaillant (1669), Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778), and Matthias de l'Obel (1538).

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