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Paul Du Chaillu

1835 - 1903

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Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (July 31, 1831 (disputed) – April 29, 1903) was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. He later researched the prehistory of Scandinavia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Du Chaillu is the 2,292nd most popular writer (up from 4,522nd in 2019), the 2,564th most popular biography from France (up from 4,207th in 2019) and the 322nd most popular French Writer.

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Among writers, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 2,292 out of 7,302Before him are Tobias Smollett, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Ding Ling, Fernando de Rojas, János Arany, and Sigismund von Herberstein. After him are Hallgrímur Pétursson, Gurju Khatun, Camilla Collett, Constantine Manasses, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Nennius.

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Among people born in 1835, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 40Before him are Iwasaki Yatarō, Tomás Estrada Palma, Eugenio Beltrami, Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Matsukata Masayoshi, and Émile Combes. After him are Germanus V of Constantinople, Matthías Jochumsson, Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, Christian Otto Mohr, Auguste Kerckhoffs, and John Hughlings Jackson. Among people deceased in 1903, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 35Before him are Émile Baudot, Charles Renouvier, Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov, Hans Gude, Gaston Paris, and Rudolf Lipschitz. After him are Ronglu, Giuseppe Zanardelli, Augusta Holmès, Béni Kállay, Malwida von Meysenbug, and Luigi Cremona.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 2,564 out of 6,770Before him are César-François Cassini de Thury (1714), Laurent Fignon (1960), Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas (1701), Manitas de Plata (1921), Émile Combes (1835), and Charles Munch (1891). After him are Louis Couperin (1626), René Fonck (1894), John I, Duke of Brittany (1217), Sami Frey (1937), Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761), and Georges d'Amboise (1460).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Paul Du Chaillu ranks 322Before him are Pierre Klossowski (1905), Ludovic Halévy (1834), Benjamin Péret (1899), Claudine Guérin de Tencin (1682), Étienne Dolet (1509), and Walter of Châtillon (1135). After him are Hervé Bazin (1911), Henri Meilhac (1831), Alexandre Exquemelin (1646), Petrus Comestor (1100), Paul Féval, père (1816), and Catherine Breillat (1948).