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Jean Baptiste Boisduval

1799 - 1879

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Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval (24 June 1799 – 30 December 1879) was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician. He was one of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, and was the co-founder of the Société entomologique de France. While best known abroad for his work in entomology, he started his career in botany, collecting a great number of French plant specimens and writing broadly on the topic throughout his career, including the textbook Flores française in 1828. Early in his career, he was interested in Coleoptera and allied himself with both Jean Théodore Lacordaire and Pierre André Latreille. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Baptiste Boisduval is the 587th most popular biologist (up from 800th in 2019), the 3,589th most popular biography from France (up from 4,599th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jean Baptiste Boisduval ranks 587 out of 1,097. Before him are Johann Jakob Kaup, Frederick DuCane Godman, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Philip Henry Gosse, Mary Agnes Chase, and Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem. After him are William Speirs Bruce, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Georg Ossian Sars, Johann Friedrich Meckel, Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, and Joseph Leidy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Jean Baptiste Boisduval ranks 35. Before him are Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Jedediah Smith, Ferdinand Reich, Henri Druey, Tanaka Hisashige, and François-Auguste Biard. After him are Duchess Marie of Württemberg, Manuel Bulnes, Imre Frivaldszky, Alexander Petrov, Joachim Barrande, and Petrache Poenaru. Among people deceased in 1879, Jean Baptiste Boisduval ranks 36. Before him are Baldomero Espartero, William Kingdon Clifford, Anthony Panizzi, Joseph Poelaert, Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Jakob Dubs. After him are Michel Chevalier, Begum Hazrat Mahal, Johann von Lamont, Sergey Solovyov, Nikolai Zaremba, and Marguerite Bays.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Baptiste Boisduval ranks 3,589 out of 6,770. Before him are Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (1839), Gustave Lanson (1857), Claudius Salmasius (1588), Jean Rostand (1894), Elisabeth Abegg (1882), and Duchess Sabine of Württemberg (1549). After him are Paulette Dubost (1910), Jean-Luc Ponty (1942), Philippe Streiff (1955), Louis Le Chatelier (1815), Gérard Larcher (1949), and Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Jean Baptiste Boisduval ranks 83. Before him are Frédéric de Lafresnaye (1783), René Maire (1878), Henri Cassini (1781), Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800), Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1779), and Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (1839). After him are Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810), Antoine Risso (1777), Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813), Jules Émile Planchon (1823), Adrien René Franchet (1834), and Émile Duclaux (1840).

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