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Jean-Étienne Guettard

1715 - 1786

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Jean-Étienne Guettard (22 September 1715 – 7 January 1786), was a French naturalist and mineralogist. He was born at Étampes, near Paris. In boyhood, he gained a knowledge of plants from his grandfather, who was an apothecary, and later he qualified as a doctor in medicine. Pursuing the study of botany in various parts of France and other countries, he began to take notice of the relation between the distribution of plants and the soils and subsoils. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean-Étienne Guettard is the 692nd most popular biologist (down from 590th in 2019), the 3,952nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,925th in 2019) and the 96th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jean-Étienne Guettard ranks 692 out of 1,097. Before him are Albert Charles Smith, Alfred Romer, Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, Basilius Besler, Alfred Sturtevant, and Josef August Schultes. After him are Anton Reichenow, Auguste Duméril, Elisabeth Christina von Linné, William Withering, Albert Bernhard Frank, and Michael Sela.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1715, Jean-Étienne Guettard ranks 19. Before him are Pierre Charles Le Monnier, François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost, Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, and Ewald Christian von Kleist. After him is Pedro Antonio de Cevallos. Among people deceased in 1786, Jean-Étienne Guettard ranks 23. Before him are Pierre Poivre, John Byron, Princess Amelia of Great Britain, Thomas Wright, Nathanael Greene, and Bernardo de Gálvez. After him are Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, Gustaf Lundberg, and William Duesbury.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Étienne Guettard ranks 3,952 out of 6,770. Before him are Bernard Pivot (1935), Jacques Soustelle (1912), Sophie, Countess of Bar (1018), Hélène Vincent (1943), Armand Penverne (1926), and Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (1731). After him are Jérôme Carcopino (1881), Michael Vartan (1968), Jacques Doniol-Valcroze (1920), Auguste Duméril (1812), Elizabeth of Nevers (1439), and Louis Bachelier (1870).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Jean-Étienne Guettard ranks 96. Before him are Émile Oustalet (1844), Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757), Alfred Grandidier (1836), Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet (1723), Charles Frédéric Girard (1822), and Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778). After him are Auguste Duméril (1812), Jean de Thévenot (1633), Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759), Paul Bert (1833), Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856), and Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (1784).

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