BIOLOGIST

Frédéric de Lafresnaye

1783 - 1861

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Baron Nöel Frédéric Armand André de Lafresnaye (24 July 1783 – 14 July 1861) was a French ornithologist and collector. Lafresnaye was born into an aristocratic family at Chateau de La Fresnaye in Falaise, Normandy. He took an early interest in natural history, particularly entomology. It was only after acquiring a collection of European birds that he turned his attention to ornithology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frédéric de Lafresnaye is the 556th most popular biologist (up from 784th in 2019), the 3,432nd most popular biography from France (up from 4,546th in 2019) and the 77th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Frédéric de Lafresnaye ranks 556 out of 1,097. Before him are Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, Joseph Paul Gaimard, George Newbold Lawrence, Marie Jules César Savigny, Emilie Snethlage, and Casimir de Candolle. After him are Sarah Gilbert, Carl Ludwig Koch, René Maire, Ludwig Diels, Agostino Bassi, and Johann Friedrich Naumann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Frédéric de Lafresnaye ranks 28. Before him are Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Georgios Sinas, Julius Klaproth, Charles-Louis Havas, Charles Julien Brianchon, and Cheung Po Tsai. After him are Erik Gustaf Geijer, Nadezhda Durova, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, Guglielmo Pepe, Joaquina Vedruna de Mas, and Pattimura. Among people deceased in 1861, Frédéric de Lafresnaye ranks 42. Before him are Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, Pierre Berthier, Gabriel Antonio Pereira, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Louis Niedermeyer, and Heinrich Rudolf Schinz. After him are Albert Niemann, Johann Andreas Wagner, Francisco del Rosario Sánchez, Václav Hanka, Antun Mihanović, and Peter Georg Bang.

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In France

Among people born in France, Frédéric de Lafresnaye ranks 3,432 out of 6,770. Before him are Stéphane Peterhansel (1965), François Marius Granet (1775), Jeanne Demessieux (1921), Chiara Mastroianni (1972), René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou (1714), and Maurice Tourneur (1876). After him are Julie Manet (1878), François Séverin Marceau (1769), Georges Lefebvre (1874), Orlan (1947), Alphonse de Châteaubriant (1877), and François de La Rocque (1885).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Frédéric de Lafresnaye ranks 77. Before him are Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778), Matthias de l'Obel (1538), Camille Guérin (1872), Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan (1814), Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793), and Marie Jules César Savigny (1777). After him are René Maire (1878), Henri Cassini (1781), Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800), Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1779), Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (1839), and Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799).

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