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Nicaise Auguste Desvaux

1784 - 1856

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Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (28 August 1784 – 12 July 1856) was a French botanist. From 1816 he taught classes in Angers, where from 1817 to 1838 he served as director of its botanical garden. He described the botanical genera Neslia, Mycenastrum, Rostkovia and Didymoglossum. The genus Desvauxia is named in his honor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicaise Auguste Desvaux is the 737th most popular biologist (up from 816th in 2019), the 4,100th most popular biography from France (up from 4,651st in 2019) and the 102nd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nicaise Auguste Desvaux ranks 737 out of 1,097. Before him are Richard Anthony Salisbury, Thomas Bell, William Roxburgh, Victor Motschulsky, Bunzō Hayata, and Edmund Beecher Wilson. After him are Wilhelm Hemprich, Hugo von Mohl, Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Sabin Berthelot, Johann Friedrich Adam, and Charles Conrad Abbott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Nicaise Auguste Desvaux ranks 45. Before him are Denis Davydov, Bagyidaw, Joseph Bové, Juan Mora Fernández, José Tadeo Monagas, and Charles Dupin. After him are Christopher Hansteen, Leopoldo Nobili, José María Pérez de Urdininea, William Yarrell, and George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland. Among people deceased in 1856, Nicaise Auguste Desvaux ranks 45. Before him are Henry Pottinger, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, Ninomiya Sontoku, Jovan Sterija Popović, Josef Kajetán Tyl, and Johan August Wahlberg. After him are Ivan Kireyevsky, Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, Michel Félix Dunal, John M. Clayton, Frederick William Beechey, and Joseph Meyer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicaise Auguste Desvaux ranks 4,100 out of 6,770. Before him are Lily Pons (1898), Roger Beaufrand (1908), François de Troy (1645), Caroline Rémy de Guebhard (1855), Pierre Marie (1853), and Philibert of Jumièges (608). After him are Catherine Cesarsky (1943), Sylvain Lévi (1863), Blaise Matuidi (1987), Jacques Vallée (1939), Louis Hostin (1908), and Wolfgang Windgassen (1914).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Nicaise Auguste Desvaux ranks 102. Before him are Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715), Auguste Duméril (1812), Jean de Thévenot (1633), Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759), Paul Bert (1833), and Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856). After him are Sabin Berthelot (1794), Élie-Abel Carrière (1818), Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716), Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (1855), Édouard Spach (1801), and Bernard Heuvelmans (1916).

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