BIOLOGIST

René Louiche Desfontaines

1750 - 1833

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René Louiche Desfontaines (14 February 1750 – 16 November 1833) was a French botanist. Desfontaines was born near Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medicine. His interest in botany originated from lectures at the Jardin des Plantes given by Louis Guillaume Lemonnier. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. René Louiche Desfontaines is the 286th most popular biologist (down from 278th in 2019), the 2,040th most popular biography from France (up from 2,317th in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, René Louiche Desfontaines ranks 286 out of 1,097. Before him are Nathaniel Wallich, Johann Hermann, Hideyo Noguchi, André Marie Constant Duméril, Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti, and John Gould. After him are Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young, Odoardo Beccari, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Lorenz Oken, and Otto Brunfels.

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Among people born in 1750, René Louiche Desfontaines ranks 20. Before him are Karl August von Hardenberg, Ami Argand, Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider, Henri Grégoire, Lorenzo Mascheroni, and Maria Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Massa. After him are Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, Fabre d'Églantine, Princess Louise of Denmark, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Bathilde d'Orléans, and Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland. Among people deceased in 1833, René Louiche Desfontaines ranks 21. Before him are Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Edmund Kean, Abbas Mirza, Adamantios Korais, Michał Kleofas Ogiński, and Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel. After him are Antoni Radziwiłł, Ferdinand Hérold, Rahel Varnhagen, Duke Alexander of Württemberg, Ivan Martinov, and Nannette Streicher.

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In France

Among people born in France, René Louiche Desfontaines ranks 2,040 out of 6,770. Before him are Armand-Augustin-Louis de Caulaincourt (1773), François Faber (1887), François Lemoyne (1688), Dominique Venner (1935), Henri Gouraud (1867), and Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1768). After him are Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737), François Girardon (1628), François Coppée (1842), Alain Connes (1947), Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658), and Claude Garamond (1499).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, René Louiche Desfontaines ranks 36. Before him are Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784), Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777), Frédéric Cuvier (1773), Pierre Belon (1517), Johann Hermann (1738), and André Marie Constant Duméril (1774). After him are Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805), Jean Victoir Audouin (1797), Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763), and Antoine Béchamp (1816).

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