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Feb 11, 2017 · In 1829, at the age of twenty-four, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's experience studying birds helped him secure a professorship of ornithology at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. In 1830, he gave a series of lectures on the interactions between different animal species and their roles within the environment.
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French zoologist noted for his work on anatomical abnormalities in humans and lower animals. In 1824 Geoffroy joined his father at the National Museum of Natural History as an assistant naturalist, and, after taking his M.D. in 1829, he taught zoology from 1830.
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Known for. Teratology, ethology. Scientific career. Fields. Zoologist. Author abbrev. (zoology) I. Geoffroy. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (16 December 1805 – 10 November 1861) was a French zoologist and an authority on deviation from normal structure. In 1854 he coined the term éthologie ( ethology ).
May 11, 2018 · Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore. ( b. Paris, France, 16 December 1805; d Paris, 10 November 1861) zoology. The only son of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore wanted to become a mathematician; but his father saw in him the continuator of his work and engaged him in his laboratory as an aide-naturalise in 1824, when he was only nineteen.
Dec 16, 2014 · Dr. William B. Ashworth, Jr., Consultant for the History of Science, Linda Hall Library and Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, a French zoologist, was born Dec. 16, 1805.
The Ambiguous Founding of Ethology Ethology, as the study of the characters of animals in their natural habitats, was foun- ded terminologically by Isidore Geoffroy-Saint- Hilaire, the son of the forementioned, in 1859. But this is complicated by an earlier founding with a very different meaning.
Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire studied anatomy and congenital abnormalities in humans and other animals in nineteenth century France. Under the tutelage of his father, Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore compiled and built on his father's studies of individuals with developmental malformations, then called monstrosities.
