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Jean René Constant Quoy

1790 - 1869

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Jean René Constant Quoy (10 November 1790 in Maillé – 4 July 1869 in Rochefort) was a French naval surgeon, zoologist and anatomist. In 1806, he began his medical studies at the school of naval medicine at Rochefort, afterwards serving as an auxiliary-surgeon on a trip to the Antilles (1808–1809). After earning his medical doctorate in 1814 at Montpellier, he was surgeon-major on a journey to Réunion (1814–1815). Along with Joseph Paul Gaimard, he served as naturalist and surgeon aboard the Uranie under Louis de Freycinet from 1817 to 1820, and on the Astrolabe (1826–1829) under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jean René Constant Quoy is the 366th most popular biologist (up from 655th in 2019), the 2,476th most popular biography from France (up from 4,161st in 2019) and the 43rd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Jean René Constant Quoy ranks 366 out of 1,097. Before him are Eugenius Warming, Humberto Maturana, Fritz Müller, Antoine Béchamp, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, and Pierre Edmond Boissier. After him are Olof Swartz, Joel Asaph Allen, Charles Plumier, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Otto Kuntze, and August Batsch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, Jean René Constant Quoy ranks 20. Before him are Robert Stirling, John Austin, Marquis de Custine, José Antonio Páez, Markos Botsaris, and Adolph Diesterweg. After him are Karol Lipiński, Keisai Eisen, Leopold, Prince of Salerno, Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Ferdinand Raimund, and Simon von Stampfer. Among people deceased in 1869, Jean René Constant Quoy ranks 27. Before him are Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Carl Reichenbach, John A. Roebling, Roger Fenton, and Afzal-ud-Daulah. After him are Mehmed Fuad Pasha, Wilhelm, Duke of Urach, Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, and Juraj Haulik.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean René Constant Quoy ranks 2,476 out of 6,770. Before him are François Berléand (1952), Bernardus Silvestris (1085), Michel Leiris (1901), Louis Massignon (1883), Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux (1753), and Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma (1940). After him are Christian Metz (1931), Joseph Paul-Boncour (1873), Elena Poniatowska (1932), Natalia Pavlovna Paley (1905), Countess Charlotte of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1700), and Yves Boisset (1939).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Jean René Constant Quoy ranks 43. Before him are Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805), Jean Victoir Audouin (1797), Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), and Antoine Béchamp (1816). After him are Charles Plumier (1646), Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801), Louis Claude Richard (1754), Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752), Auguste Chevalier (1873), and Philibert Commerson (1727).

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