BIOLOGIST

Paul Gervais

1816 - 1879

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Paul Gervais (full name: François Louis Paul Gervais) (26 September 1816 – 10 February 1879) was a French palaeontologist and entomologist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Gervais is the 431st most popular biologist (up from 516th in 2019), the 2,855th most popular biography from France (up from 3,631st in 2019) and the 53rd most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Paul Gervais ranks 431 out of 1,097Before him are Pieter Bleeker, Asa Gray, Karl Eichwald, Andrew Smith, Abraham Trembley, and Ivan Martinov. After him are Wilhelm Roux, Roderick Murchison, Juan Ignacio Molina, Arthur Cronquist, Robert Weinberg, and Mary Elizabeth Barber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1816, Paul Gervais ranks 26Before him are Rudolf Wolf, Jan Arnošt Smoler, Paul Féval, père, Giovanni Morelli, Henri Dupuy de Lôme, and Charlotte Cushman. After him are August Karl von Goeben, Emanuel Leutze, Malwida von Meysenbug, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt, Ion Ghica, and Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet. Among people deceased in 1879, Paul Gervais ranks 29Before him are William, Prince of Orange, Karl Friedrich Mohr, Maurycy Gottlieb, Prince Henry of the Netherlands, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, and Karl Koch. After him are Baldomero Espartero, William Kingdon Clifford, Anthony Panizzi, Joseph Poelaert, Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Jakob Dubs.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Gervais ranks 2,855 out of 6,770Before him are Julie d'Aubigny (1670), Ousmane Dembélé (1997), Anne Dacier (1645), Alix, Duchess of Brittany (1200), Jules Simon (1814), and Christian Louboutin (1964). After him are Georges Catroux (1877), Abraham Duquesne (1610), Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748), Seán MacBride (1904), Maurice Emmanuel (1862), and Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Paul Gervais ranks 53Before him are Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752), Auguste Chevalier (1873), Philibert Commerson (1727), Achille Valenciennes (1794), Pierre Magnol (1638), and Eugène Simon (1848). After him are Félix Vicq-d'Azyr (1748), Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797), Henri Ernest Baillon (1827), Antoine de Jussieu (1686), Alain Bombard (1924), and Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776).