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Léon Jean Marie Dufour

1780 - 1865

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Léon Jean Marie (or Jean-Marie Léon) Dufour (10 April 1780, Saint-Sever – 18 April 1865) was a French medical doctor and naturalist. Between 1799 and 1806 he studied medicine in Paris then returned to Saint-Sever in the Landes. He participated as an army doctor in the Peninsular War and returned to his birthplace at the end of the war. In 1854, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Léon Jean Marie Dufour is the 456th most popular physician (up from 504th in 2019), the 3,419th most popular biography from France (up from 3,911th in 2019) and the 49th most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Léon Jean Marie Dufour ranks 456 out of 726Before him are Luca Ghini, Divna Veković, Hans Münch, Anastasia Golovina, Deborah Birx, and Hiroshi Nakajima. After him are Bénédict Morel, Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, Wilhelm Fliess, René Favaloro, and Benjamin Rush.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1780, Léon Jean Marie Dufour ranks 35Before him are Göran Wahlenberg, Princess Augusta of Prussia, August Leopold Crelle, Reşid Mehmed Pasha, Johannes van den Bosch, and Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro. After him are Johann Friedrich Naumann, Juana Azurduy de Padilla, Alexey Venetsianov, Henri Braconnot, Fulgencio Yegros, and Karoline von Günderrode. Among people deceased in 1865, Léon Jean Marie Dufour ranks 51Before him are Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Isabella Beeton, Adolph Kolping, Friedrich August Stüler, Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine, and Joseph Lebeau. After him are Alexander Dukhnovych, Charles Lock Eastlake, Mary Surratt, John Richardson, Robert Hermann Schomburgk, and Otto Ludwig.

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In France

Among people born in France, Léon Jean Marie Dufour ranks 3,419 out of 6,770Before him are Edwige Feuillère (1907), Jacques Hamel (1930), François-Hubert Drouais (1727), Albert Batteux (1919), Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (1822), and Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (1282). After him are Jacques Labillardière (1755), Gustave Le Gray (1820), Antoine Furetière (1619), Roland Dumas (1922), Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), and Louis Pergaud (1882).

Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Léon Jean Marie Dufour ranks 49Before him are Adrien Proust (1834), Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol (1786), Aemilia Hilaria (300), Bernard de Jussieu (1699), Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755), and Ernest Duchesne (1874). After him are Eugène Olivier (1881), Madeleine Pelletier (1874), Jean Cruveilhier (1791), Henri Dutrochet (1776), Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835), and Wladimir Aïtoff (1879).