BIOLOGIST

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

1772 - 1844

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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (French pronunciation: [etjɛn ʒɔfʁwa sɛ̃t‿ilɛʁ]; 15 April 1772 – 19 June 1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories. Geoffroy's scientific views had a transcendental flavor (unlike Lamarck's materialistic views) and were similar to those of German morphologists like Lorenz Oken. He believed in the underlying unity of organismal design, and the possibility of the transmutation of species in time, amassing evidence for his claims through research in comparative anatomy, paleontology, and embryology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire is the 88th most popular biologist, the 741st most popular biography from France (up from 909th in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Biologist.

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire is most famous for his contributions to comparative anatomy and the theory of recapitulation.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 88 out of 1,097. Before him are Werner Arber, Jules A. Hoffmann, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Hans Spemann, Herman Boerhaave, and August Weismann. After him are Katherine Oppenheimer, Clair Cameron Patterson, Alfred Hershey, Ernst Mayr, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, and Philip Sclater.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1772, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 8. Before him are Novalis, Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Friedrich Schlegel, Charles Fourier, William I of the Netherlands, and Ram Mohan Roy. After him are Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, Nachman of Breslov, Tarrare, and Charles Leclerc. Among people deceased in 1844, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 11. Before him are Ching Shih, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, and Ivan Krylov. After him are William Beckford, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Flora Tristan, Charles Nodier, Jernej Kopitar, and Henri Gatien Bertrand.

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In France

Among people born in France, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 741 out of 6,770. Before him are Félix Faure (1841), Jan Gossaert (1478), Michel Barnier (1951), Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), Léon Bourgeois (1851), and Antipope Clement VII (1342). After him are Louis Blériot (1872), Adela of Champagne (1140), Marie of Anjou (1404), Louise de La Vallière (1644), Raymond Queneau (1903), and Louise of Lorraine (1553).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire ranks 16. Before him are Roger Guillemin (1924), René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683), Jean Dausset (1916), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), and René Lesson (1794). After him are Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803), Pierre André Latreille (1762), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656), Aimé Bonpland (1773), and Félix d'Herelle (1873).

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