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Joachim Barrande

1799 - 1883

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Joachim Barrande (11 August 1799 – 5 October 1883) was a French geologist and palaeontologist. He was particularly known for his work on trilobites, published in the Systéme Silurien de la Bohéme which he published in 22 parts. Trained under the school of Georges Cuvier, he opposed the evolutionary views of Charles Darwin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joachim Barrande is the 43rd most popular geologist (down from 36th in 2019), the 3,848th most popular biography from France (down from 3,768th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Joachim Barrande ranks 43 out of 90. Before him are Harry Rosenbusch, Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Édouard Lartet, Barnum Brown, Adolphe d'Archiac, and Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald. After him are Hiroo Kanamori, Lawrence Lambe, Alfred Lacroix, Henryk Arctowski, Carl Friedrich Schmidt, and Niles Eldredge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Joachim Barrande ranks 40. Before him are François-Auguste Biard, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, Duchess Marie of Württemberg, Manuel Bulnes, Imre Frivaldszky, and Alexander Petrov. After him are Petrache Poenaru, Prince Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau, Robert von Mohl, Heinrich von Kittlitz, Eliza Acton, and Fyodor Bruni. Among people deceased in 1883, Joachim Barrande ranks 57. Before him are Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse, Butrus al-Bustani, Alexander H. Stephens, Dục Đức, Hiệp Hòa, and Francesco de Sanctis. After him are Mahmud Nedim Pasha, John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, Samo Chalupka, Yevfimiy Putyatin, Sven Nilsson, and Alexandros Koumoundouros.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joachim Barrande ranks 3,848 out of 6,770. Before him are Boris Cyrulnik (1937), Christian Herter (1895), Lucien Démanet (1874), Marie of the Incarnation (1599), Jean Mermoz (1901), and Gustave Sandras (1872). After him are Antonin Mercié (1845), Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948), Jean François de Saint-Lambert (1716), Emmanuel Bove (1898), Jehan Buhan (1912), and François Marty (1904).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In France

Among geologists born in France, Joachim Barrande ranks 5. Before him are Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (1750), Léon Teisserenc de Bort (1855), Édouard Lartet (1801), and Adolphe d'Archiac (1802). After him are Alfred Lacroix (1863), and Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847).

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