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Frédéric Cuvier

1773 - 1838

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Georges-Frédéric Cuvier (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ fʁedeʁik kyvje]; 28 June 1773 – 24 July 1838) was a French zoologist and paleontologist. He was the younger brother of noted naturalist and zoologist Georges Cuvier. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frédéric Cuvier is the 257th most popular biologist (up from 425th in 2019), the 1,831st most popular biography from France (up from 3,188th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Frédéric Cuvier ranks 257 out of 1,097. Before him are Joy Adamson, Johann Baptist von Spix, Albert von Kölliker, Martin Vahl, Henri Milne-Edwards, and Charles Bell. After him are Eva Ekeblad, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Pierre Belon, Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, and David Goodall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1773, Frédéric Cuvier ranks 17. Before him are Aimé Bonpland, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Thérésa Tallien, James Mill, Amschel Mayer Rothschild, and Henri Gatien Bertrand. After him are Tokugawa Ienari, George Cayley, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, and Hussein Dey. Among people deceased in 1838, Frédéric Cuvier ranks 13. Before him are Johanna Schopenhauer, Pierre Louis Dulong, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Bernard Courtois, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, and Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy. After him are Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, Ferdinand Ries, Hussein Dey, Bernhard Crusell, René Caillié, and Charles Percier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Frédéric Cuvier ranks 1,831 out of 6,770. Before him are Nicolas Anelka (1979), Pierre Charron (1541), Henri Pitot (1695), Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692), Remy de Gourmont (1858), and Marisa Berenson (1947). After him are Eugène Carrière (1849), Miou-Miou (1950), Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728), Charles Dupuy (1851), Isabelle of France (1225), and Georges Canguilhem (1904).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Frédéric Cuvier ranks 32. Before him are Armand David (1826), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Michel Adanson (1727), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777). After him are Pierre Belon (1517), Johann Hermann (1738), André Marie Constant Duméril (1774), René Louiche Desfontaines (1750), Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805), and Jean Victoir Audouin (1797).

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