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Cuvier, Frédéric, ed. (1816–1845). Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médecine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les artes.
- Member of the Royal Society
- 24 July 1838 (aged 65), Strasbourg, France
- 28 June 1773, Montbéliard, France
- Zoology
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 ...
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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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 early 19th century and was instrumental in ...
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Jul 10, 2013 · Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) Georges Cuvier, baptized Georges Jean-Léopold Nicolas-Frédéric Cuvier, was a professor of anatomy at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, through the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Scholars recognize Cuvier as a founder of modern comparative anatomy, and as an important ...
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Frédéric Cuvier publie l'Histoire naturelle des Cétacés (2 volumes, 1836) et collabore dès 1824 avec Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire à la rédaction déjà en cours depuis 1818 de l'Histoire naturelle des Mammifères (1818-1842). Il obtient, en 1837, la chaire de physiologie comparée, spécialement créée pour lui. L’année suivante ...
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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