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Cuvier. Author abbrev. (zoology) Cuvier. Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier ( French: [ʒɔʁʒ kyvje] ), was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". [1] Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the ...
Frederic was the head keeper of the menagerie at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1804 to 1838. He named the red panda ( Ailurus fulgens) in 1825. The chair of comparative physiology was created for him at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in 1837. He was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1835.
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Jun 28, 2023 · Georges-Frédéric Cuvier, a French naturalist, was born June 28, 1773, in Montbéliard. He was the younger brother by four years of the famous anatomist and zoologist Georges Cuvier, for which reason, presumably, he published under the name Frédéric. Unlike his older brother, Frédéric got a slow start on the road to becoming a professional ...
Dec 8, 2013 · He called it a ptero-dactyle, meaning “wing-fingered.” Cuvier’s proof of extinction—of “a world previous to ours”—was a sensational event, and news of it soon spread across the Atlantic.
May 9, 2024 · taxonomy. Georges Cuvier (born August 23, 1769, Montbéliard [now in France]—died May 13, 1832, Paris, France) was a French zoologist and statesman, who established the sciences of comparative anatomy and paleontology. Cuvier was born in Montbéliard, a town attached to the German duchy of Württemberg until the 1790s, when it passed to France.
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Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (August 23, 1769 - May 13, 1832) was a French naturalist and zoologist, and one of the most influential science figures in the early nineteenth century. He preferred to be called Georges Cuvier although it was not his legal name (Hull 1988). He was the elder brother of Frédéric Cuvier (1773 ...
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.
