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René Just Haüy

1743 - 1822

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René Just Haüy (French pronunciation: [aɥi]) FRS MWS FRSE (28 February 1743 – 1 June 1822) was a French priest and mineralogist, commonly styled the Abbé Haüy after he was made an honorary canon of Notre Dame. Due to his innovative work on crystal structure and his four-volume Traité de Minéralogie (1801), he is often referred to as the "Father of Modern Crystallography". During the French Revolution he also helped to establish the metric system. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. René Just Haüy is the 113th most popular social activist (up from 168th in 2019), the 1,029th most popular biography from France (up from 1,498th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, René Just Haüy ranks 113 out of 840. Before him are Mukhtar al-Thaqafi, Fanny Kaplan, John Brown, Fra Dolcino, Zhang Jue, and Marinus van der Lubbe. After him are Thomas Cranmer, Annie Besant, Flora Tristan, Betty Ford, Vesna Vulović, and Pier Gerlofs Donia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1743, René Just Haüy ranks 15. Before him are Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Nicolai Abildgaard, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh. After him are Joseph Banks, Gavrila Derzhavin, Edmund Cartwright, William I, Elector of Hesse, Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, and Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau. Among people deceased in 1822, René Just Haüy ranks 9. Before him are Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Antonio Canova, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Claude Louis Berthollet, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, and Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu. After him are Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Paolo Ruffini, Jean-Robert Argand, and Karl August von Hardenberg.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Just Haüy ranks 1,029 out of 6,770. Before him are Victoire of France (1733), Étienne Cabet (1788), Philip II, Duke of Savoy (1438), Theudebert II (585), Charles III, Duke of Savoy (1486), and Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans (1753). After him are Aimé Bonpland (1773), Thomas Couture (1815), Flora Tristan (1803), Laura de Noves (1310), François l'Olonnais (1635), and Pierre d'Ailly (1350).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In France

Among social activists born in France, René Just Haüy ranks 6. Before him are Charlotte Corday (1768), Olympe de Gouges (1748), Gabrielle d'Estrées (1573), Léon Jouhaux (1879), and Louise Michel (1830). After him are Flora Tristan (1803), Edmond James de Rothschild (1845), René Cassin (1887), Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208), Abbé Pierre (1912), and Balthasar Gérard (1557).

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