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- Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède (born December 26, 1756, Agen, France—died October 6, 1825, Épinay-sur-Seine) was a French naturalist and politician who made original contributions to the knowledge of fishes and reptiles.
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Lacépède was born at Agen in Guienne. His education was carefully conducted by his father, and the early perusal of Buffon 's Natural History ( Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière) awakened his interest in that branch of study, which absorbed his chief attention.
Lacépède was born at Agen in Guienne. His education was carefully conducted by his father, and the early perusal of Buffon 's Natural History ( Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière ) awakened his interest in that branch of study, which absorbed his chief attention.
Bernard-Germain-Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède or La Cépède (French: [bɛʁnaʁ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ etjɛn də la vil syʁ‿ijɔ̃ də lasepɛd]; 26 December 1756 – 6 October 1825) was a French naturalist and an active freemason.
Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville Lacépède, comte de (bĕrnär´ zhĕrmăN´ ātyĕn´ də lä vēl kôNt də läsāpĕd´), 1756–1825, French naturalist. As a youth he showed considerable talent in both music and physics and won the favor of Buffon, whose work in animal classification he was encouraged to continue.
16 [André Marie Constant Duméril, born at Amiens in 1774, was appointed professor of anatomy in Paris in 1801, and from 1803 he substituted for Lacepède in the chair of ichthyology and herpetology before becoming his successor in 1825.
- Georges Cuvier, Theodore W. Pietsch
- 2020
Lacepède was born on 26 December 1756 in Agen, to a family which was apparently not very wealthy but of old and illustrious nobility, dis- tantly related to the House of Lorraine, i.e. to Queen Marie- Antoinette.7
Lacépède was born at Agen in Guienne. His education was carefully conducted by his father, and the early perusal of Buffon 's Natural History ( Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière) awakened his interest in that branch of study, which absorbed his chief attention.
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