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Marie Jules César Savigny

1777 - 1851

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Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (French: [maʁi ʒyl sezaʁ ləlɔʁɲ də saviɲi]; 5 April 1777 – 5 October 1851) was a French zoologist and naturalist who served on Emperor Napoleon's Egypt expedition in 1798. He published descriptions of numerous taxa and was among the first to propose that the mouth-parts of insects are derived from the jointed legs of segmented arthropods. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marie Jules César Savigny is the 553rd most popular biologist (down from 538th in 2019), the 3,424th most popular biography from France (up from 3,718th in 2019) and the 76th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Marie Jules César Savigny ranks 553 out of 1,097Before him are Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, Katsuko Saruhashi, Rolf Singer, Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, Joseph Paul Gaimard, and George Newbold Lawrence. After him are Emilie Snethlage, Casimir de Candolle, Frédéric de Lafresnaye, Sarah Gilbert, Carl Ludwig Koch, and René Maire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, Marie Jules César Savigny ranks 34Before him are Christian Daniel Rauch, Hyacinth, Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, William Brown, Heinrich Marx, and Casimir Pierre Périer. After him are Heinrich Rudolf Schinz, Louis Hersent, Antoine Risso, Carlos Anaya, Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, and Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga. Among people deceased in 1851, Marie Jules César Savigny ranks 35Before him are Göran Wahlenberg, Conrad Graf, Stanko Vraz, Leopold, Prince of Salerno, Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol, and Alexander Alyabyev. After him are Ramón Freire, Manuel Gómez Pedraza, Esteban Echeverría, Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, and Dawud Pasha of Baghdad.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marie Jules César Savigny ranks 3,424 out of 6,770Before him are Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (1282), Léon Jean Marie Dufour (1780), Jacques Labillardière (1755), Gustave Le Gray (1820), Antoine Furetière (1619), and Roland Dumas (1922). After him are Louis Pergaud (1882), Stéphane Peterhansel (1965), François Marius Granet (1775), Jeanne Demessieux (1921), Chiara Mastroianni (1972), and René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou (1714).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Marie Jules César Savigny ranks 76Before him are Sébastien Vaillant (1669), Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778), Matthias de l'Obel (1538), Camille Guérin (1872), Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan (1814), and Joseph Paul Gaimard (1793). After 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).