GEOLOGIST

Édouard Lartet

1801 - 1871

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Édouard Lartet (15 April 1801 – 28 January 1871) was a French geologist and paleontologist, and a pioneer of Paleolithic archaeology. He is also known for coining the prehistoric taxon Amphicyon, making it one of the earliest-described fossil carnivorans in the palaeontological record. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Édouard Lartet is the 39th most popular geologist (down from 35th in 2019), the 3,728th most popular biography from France (up from 3,762nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Geologist.

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Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Édouard Lartet ranks 39 out of 90. Before him are Alexander Karpinsky, Albert Heim, Maria Klenova, Ferdinand Zirkel, Harry Rosenbusch, and Léon Teisserenc de Bort. After him are Barnum Brown, Adolphe d'Archiac, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, Joachim Barrande, Hiroo Kanamori, and Lawrence Lambe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Édouard Lartet ranks 63. Before him are Atanasio Aguirre, Evangelos Damaskos, Jan Kalivoda, Edward William Lane, Maria Röhl, and José Joaquín Pérez. After him are Peter Wilhelm Lund, Hippolyte Carnot, Henri de Brouckère, Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Friedrich Frey-Herosé, and František Škroup. Among people deceased in 1871, Édouard Lartet ranks 47. Before him are İbrahim Şinasi, Charles Antoine Lemaire, August Immanuel Bekker, Julius Weisbach, Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso, and Louis Charles Delescluze. After him are Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Princess Therese of Nassau-Weilburg, Anna Sundström, Peter von Hess, François Delsarte, and Stand Watie.

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In France

Among people born in France, Édouard Lartet ranks 3,728 out of 6,770. Before him are Samir Nasri (1987), Catherine Frot (1956), Isaac René Guy le Chapelier (1754), Madeleine Renaud (1900), Léon Teisserenc de Bort (1855), and Roger Ducret (1888). After him are Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928), Gérard Lenorman (1945), Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694), Maurice Paléologue (1859), Alfred Sauvy (1898), and Frédéric Vasseur (1968).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In France

Among geologists born in France, Édouard Lartet ranks 3. Before him are Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (1750), and Léon Teisserenc de Bort (1855). After him are Adolphe d'Archiac (1802), Joachim Barrande (1799), Alfred Lacroix (1863), and Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847).

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