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Much has been written about Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier (born 23 August 1769, died 13 May 1832), better known by his adopted name, Georges Cuvier. Numerous authors1 have described his early years at Montbéliard, his birthplace in the present French department of Doubs, close to the Swiss border; his education at the Academy of Stuttgart; his employment as tutor to the sons of the ...
Georges Cuvier was born Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier, on August 23, 1769, in Montbéliard, County of Montbéliard, Kingdom of Würtemberg (department of Doubs in France). His father, Jean George Cuvier, was a ‘Swiss Guards’ lieutenant and a bourgeois of Montbéliard. His mother, Anne Clémence Chatel, tutored him initially ...
The inventor of Palaeontology. Baron Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) Cuvier was born in Montbéliard – which at the time belonged to the Duchy of Wurttemberg, but was of French culture and language – into a middle-class, Lutheran family. There were numerous pastors on his father’s as well as on his mother’s side.
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Georges Cuvier, baptized Georges Jean-Leopold Nicolas-Frederic Cuvier, was a professor of anatomy at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, through the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier , known as Georges Cuvier , was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology ...
Dec 8, 2013 · On April 4, 1796—or, according to the French Revolutionary calendar in use at the time, 15 Germinal, Year IV—Jean-Léopold-Nicholas-Frédéric Cuvier, known, after a brother who had died ...
