BIOLOGIST

Michał Boym

1614 - 1659

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Michał Piotr Boym, SJ (Chinese: 卜彌格; pinyin: Bǔ Mígé; c. 1612 – 1659) was a Polish Jesuit missionary to China, scientist and explorer. He was an early Western traveller within the Chinese mainland, and the author of numerous works on Asian fauna, flora and geography. The first European Chinese dictionary, published in 1670, is attributed to Boym. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michał Boym is the 382nd most popular biologist (down from 324th in 2019), the 336th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 346th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Ukrainian Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Michał Boym ranks 382 out of 1,097. Before him are Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Nikolai Severtzov, John Maynard Smith, Samuel Frederick Gray, Matt Ridley, and Esther Lederberg. After him are François-Alphonse Forel, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst, Carlo Allioni, Louis Claude Richard, Johann Georg Wagler, and Josias Braun-Blanquet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1614, Michał Boym ranks 10. Before him are John Wilkins, Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg, Henry More, Martino Martini, Henry II, Duke of Guise, and Hallgrímur Pétursson. After him are Juan Carreño de Miranda, Élisabeth de Bourbon, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, Franz Tunder, Gonzales Coques, and Francisco Rizi. Among people deceased in 1659, Michał Boym ranks 10. Before him are Duchess Magdalene Sibylle of Prussia, Kaya Sultan, Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt, Simon Dach, and Frederick V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach. After him are Willem Drost, Jan Baptist Weenix, Giovanni Pesaro, and Juan de Palafox y Mendoza.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Michał Boym ranks 336 out of 1,365. Before him are Tamara Smirnova (1935), Maya Deren (1917), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), Theodosius of Kiev (1029), and Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877). After him are Sholem Schwarzbard (1886), Yuri Knorozov (1922), Zbigniew Cybulski (1927), Evgeny Lifshitz (1915), Pavel Rybalko (1894), and Arkady Luxemburg (1939).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Ukraine

Among biologists born in Ukraine, Michał Boym ranks 6. Before him are Élie Metchnikoff (1845), Trofim Lysenko (1898), Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803), Waldemar Haffkine (1860), and Sergei Winogradsky (1856). After him are Ludwik Fleck (1896), Ivan Martinov (1771), and Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim (1888).

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