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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.
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, né le 29 mai 1716 à Montbard et mort le 31 décembre 1799 à Paris, est un naturaliste et médecin français, premier directeur du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.
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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).
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 (lwē zhäN märē´ dōbäNtôN´), 1716–1800, French naturalist. He was a professor at the Collège de France from 1778; his work touched many fields—comparative anatomy, plant physiology, mineralogy, and experimental agriculture.
DAUBENTON, LOUIS-JEAN-MARIE (b. Montbard, France. 29 May 1716; d. Paris, France, 1 January 1800) medicine, anatomy, mineralogy, zootechny. Daubenton was the son of Jean Daubenton, a notary, and of Marie Pichenot.
