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- Daubenton married Marguerite Daubenton, a first cousin, on 21 October 1754; they had no children.
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His father, Jean Daubenton, a notary, intended him for the church, and sent him to Paris to study theology, but Louis-Jean-Marie was more interested in medicine. Jean's death in 1736 set his son free to choose his own career, and in 1741 he graduated in medicine at Reims and returned to his hometown, planning to practice as a physician.
May 25, 2024 · Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton was a French naturalist who was a pioneer in the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology. Daubenton was studying medicine when, in 1742, the renowned naturalist Georges Buffon asked him to prepare anatomical descriptions for an ambitious work on natural history.
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Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton (29 May 1716 – 1 January 1800) was a French naturalist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Biography. Daubenton's grave in the gardens of the Museum of Natural History. Daubenton was born at Montbard, Côte-d'Or.
May 29, 2015 · Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, a French comparative anatomist, was born May 29, 1716. Daubenton came from Montbard, in eastern France, as did his countryman, Georges Buffon, the naturalist. In 1749, when Buffon launched what would become his 44-volume Histoire naturelle,...
;LOUIS-JEAN-MARIE DAUBENTON (1716-1800), French naturalist, was born at Montbar (Cote d'Or) on the 29th of May 1716. His father, Jean Daubenton, a notary, destined him for the church, and sent him to Paris to learn theology, but the study of medicine was more to his taste.
Daubenton married Marguerite Daubenton, a first cousin, on 21 October 1754; they had no children. His contemporaries described him as circumspect and meticulous, living a well-regulated life and keeping his distance from the political dissensions of the age.
Louis Jean Marie Daubenton. 1716-1800. French comparative anatomist and physician who in 1742 was chosen by Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon to help prepare anatomical descriptions of mammals for the latter's Histoire naturelle (published 1749-89).
