BIOLOGIST

Mathurin Jacques Brisson

1723 - 1806

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Mathurin Jacques Brisson (French pronunciation: [matyʁɛ̃ ʒak bʁisɔ̃]; 30 April 1723 – 23 June 1806) was a French zoologist and natural philosopher. Brisson was born on 30 April 1723 at Fontenay-le-Comte in the Vendée department of western France. His parents wished him to take ecclesiastic orders, but in 1747, he abandoned his studies, and from 1749, was employed by the wealthy French naturalist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur as the curator of a large private collection of objects related to natural history that de Réaumur kept at his ancestral home at Réaumur in the Vendée. Brisson became interested in the classification of animals and was influenced by the works of Carl Linnaeus and Jacob Theodor Klein. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mathurin Jacques Brisson is the 170th most popular biologist (up from 188th in 2019), the 1,199th most popular biography from France (up from 1,642nd in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Mathurin Jacques Brisson ranks 170 out of 1,097. Before him are Mario Capecchi, Henry Walter Bates, Louis Agassiz, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Leland H. Hartwell, and William Bateson. After him are Joseph Dalton Hooker, John Ray, Norman Borlaug, Adolf Engler, George Robert Gray, and Dmitri Ivanovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Mathurin Jacques Brisson ranks 7. Before him are Adam Smith, Baron d'Holbach, Frederick V of Denmark, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Joshua Reynolds, and Carl Friedrich Abel. After him are Jean-François Marmontel, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Adam Ferguson, Prithvi Narayan Shah, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute. Among people deceased in 1806, Mathurin Jacques Brisson ranks 17. Before him are Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, Johann Christoph Adelung, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Utamaro, and Nicolas Leblanc. After him are Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Michel Adanson, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily, Mungo Park, and Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Mathurin Jacques Brisson ranks 1,199 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut (1401), Paulinus of Nola (354), Anne L'Huillier (1958), Raymond Radiguet (1903), Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805), and Jacques Demy (1931). After him are Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (1523), Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701), Alain de Benoist (1943), Bertran de Born (1140), La Hire (1390), and Louise Henriette de Bourbon (1726).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Mathurin Jacques Brisson ranks 24. Before him are Pierre André Latreille (1762), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Aimé Bonpland (1773), Félix d'Herelle (1873), and Bernard Germain de Lacépède (1756). After him are Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737), Armand David (1826), Emmanuelle Charpentier (1968), Michel Adanson (1727), Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806), and Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784).

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