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Jean-Henri Fabre

1823 - 1915

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Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃ʁi kazimiʁ fabʁ]; 21 December 1823 – 11 October 1915) was a French naturalist, entomologist, and author known for the lively style of his popular books on the lives of insects. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Henri Fabre is the 106th most popular biologist (down from 53rd in 2019), the 859th most popular biography from France (down from 695th in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Biologist.

Jean-Henri Fabre is most famous for his studies on insects. He was a French entomologist and professor of entomology at the University of Montpellier.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jean-Henri Fabre ranks 106 out of 1,097Before him are Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Janaki Ammal, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Georges J. F. Köhler, and Philip Miller. After him are Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, Stanley B. Prusiner, Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim, and Svante Pääbo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Jean-Henri Fabre ranks 13Before him are Sándor Petőfi, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, Leopold Kronecker, Édouard Lalo, Alexandre Cabanel, and Li Hongzhang. After him are John Sherman, John Russell Hind, Charles I of Württemberg, Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mackenzie Bowell, and Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1915, Jean-Henri Fabre ranks 8Before him are Alois Alzheimer, Paul Ehrlich, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Henry Moseley, Porfirio Díaz, and Ellen G. White. After him are Sergei Witte, Clara Immerwahr, Charles Tupper, Wilhelm Windelband, Arthur Auwers, and Émile Waldteufel.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Henri Fabre ranks 859 out of 6,770Before him are Lucien Lévy-Bruhl (1857), François Darlan (1881), Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763), Robert Curthose (1054), Paul Reynaud (1878), and François Bayrou (1951). After him are Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788), Pierre Méchain (1744), Arnaut Daniel (1150), Theobald I of Navarre (1201), Liliane Bettencourt (1922), and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Jean-Henri Fabre ranks 19Before him are Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), René Lesson (1794), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), and Pierre André Latreille (1762). After him are Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Aimé Bonpland (1773), Félix d'Herelle (1873), Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756), Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723), and Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737).