BIOLOGIST

Edmond de Sélys Longchamps

1813 - 1900

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Baron Michel Edmond de Selys Longchamps (25 May 1813 – 11 December 1900) was a Belgian Liberal Party politician and scientist. Selys Longchamps has been regarded as the founding figure of odonatology, the study of the dragonflies and damselflies. His wealth and influence enabled him to amass one of the finest collections of neuroptera insects and to describe many species from around the world. His collection is housed in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edmond de Sélys Longchamps is the 605th most popular biologist (up from 606th in 2019), the 3,654th most popular biography from France (up from 3,978th in 2019) and the 86th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps ranks 605 out of 1,097. Before him are George Clifford III, Ruth Arnon, Antoine Risso, Otto Stapf, Władysław Taczanowski, and Jon E. Ahlquist. After him are Jules Émile Planchon, Adrien René Franchet, Émile Duclaux, Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper, Pieter Willem Korthals, and Fritz Schaudinn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1813, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps ranks 50. Before him are Alexander Parkes, Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Countess Franziska Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau, Antonio García Gutiérrez, John C. Frémont, and Theodor Kotschy. After him are Nikolay Ogarev, Frederick Scott Archer, Isidore Pils, Charles Blanc, Prince August of Württemberg, and Otto Ludwig. Among people deceased in 1900, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps ranks 65. Before him are Piet Joubert, Sergei Korsakoff, Francišak Bahuševič, Alexandre Falguière, Rudolf Charousek, and Johan Kjeldahl. After him are Adrien René Franchet, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, James Edward Keeler, Jean Frédéric Frenet, and Arsenio Martínez Campos.

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In France

Among people born in France, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps ranks 3,654 out of 6,770. Before him are Christian Marin (1929), Marc Riboud (1923), Henri Laurent (1881), Pierre Étaix (1928), Jacques Herbrand (1908), and Charles Renard (1847). After him are Louis-Marie Billé (1938), Jules Émile Planchon (1823), Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883), Maurice Feltin (1883), Adrien René Franchet (1834), and Micheline Ostermeyer (1922).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Edmond de Sélys Longchamps ranks 86. Before him are Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800), Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1779), Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (1839), Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799), Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810), and Antoine Risso (1777). After him are Jules Émile Planchon (1823), Adrien René Franchet (1834), Émile Duclaux (1840), Émile Oustalet (1844), Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757), and Alfred Grandidier (1836).

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