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Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre

1752 - 1804

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Abbé Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752, Aveyron – 20 September 1804, Saint-Geniez-d'Olt) was a French zoologist who contributed sections on cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and insects to the Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique. He is also notable as the first scientist to study the feral child Victor of Aveyron. Bonnaterre is credited with identifying about 25 new species of fish, and assembled illustrations of about 400 in his encyclopedia work. He was the first scientist to study Victor, the wild child of Aveyron, whose life inspired François Truffaut for his film The Wild Child. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre is the 402nd most popular biologist (down from 315th in 2019), the 2,676th most popular biography from France (down from 2,643rd in 2019) and the 47th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre ranks 402 out of 1,097. Before him are Edwin Klebs, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Theodor Boveri, Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Ludwik Fleck, and Karl Koch. After him are Harold E. Varmus, Lev Berg, Heinrich Anton de Bary, June Almeida, Georg August Goldfuss, and Auguste Chevalier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1752, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre ranks 20. Before him are Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, Adolph Freiherr Knigge, Nguyễn Huệ, John Nash, Sébastien Érard, and Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli. After him are Anton Walter, Betsy Ross, Torii Kiyonaga, Alexander Tormasov, Andrey Razumovsky, and François Isaac de Rivaz. Among people deceased in 1804, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre ranks 23. Before him are Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Johann Adam Hiller, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Antonio José Cavanilles, 8th Dalai Lama, and Carlo Allioni. After him are Georges Cadoudal, Paul Kray, Philippe LeBon, Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer, Sultan bin Ahmad, and Henrik Gabriel Porthan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre ranks 2,676 out of 6,770. Before him are Noël Bas (1877), Maurice Pialat (1925), Antoine Forqueray (1671), Émile Ollivier (1825), Paschasius Radbertus (792), and Jacques Roubaud (1932). After him are Odo I, Count of Blois (950), Jacques Brugnon (1895), Eugène Marin Labiche (1815), Jean-Luc Marion (1946), Judoc (600), and Claude Gillot (1673).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre ranks 47. Before him are Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), Antoine Béchamp (1816), Jean René Constant Quoy (1790), Charles Plumier (1646), Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (1801), and Louis Claude Richard (1754). After him are Auguste Chevalier (1873), Philibert Commerson (1727), Achille Valenciennes (1794), Pierre Magnol (1638), Eugène Simon (1848), and Paul Gervais (1816).

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