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Charles Darwin
English naturalist and biologist (1809–1882)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 12 February 1809
- Died
- 19 April 1882, 1882
- Place of birth
- The Mount, Shrewsbury
- Place of death
- Down House, Shrewsbury
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Darwin
- Father
- Robert Darwin
- Mother
- Susannah Wedgwood
- Spouse
- Emma Darwin
- Child
- Anne Darwin, Francis Darwin, William Erasmus Darwin, Henrietta Darwin, George Howard Darwin, Leonard Darwin, Horace Darwin, Charles Waring Darwin, Elizabeth Darwin, Mary Eleanor Darwin
- Field of work
- biology, natural history, zoology
- Occupation
- geologist, explorer, travel writer, ethologist, naturalist, philosopher, writer, botanist, botanical collector, scientific collector, biologist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Native language
- English language in England
- Religion
- Anglicanism, agnosticism
- Awards
- Royal Medal, Copley Medal, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society, Baly Medal, Fellow of the Geological Society of London, Bressa Prize, Honorary doctor of Leiden University, Wollaston Medal, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
- academic degree
- Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Legum Doctor
- archives at
- ETH Zurich University Archives
- author citation (zoology)
- Darwin
- birth name
- Charles Robert Darwin
- collection items at
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, National Herbarium of Victoria, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, Herbarium, Missouri Botanical Garden, Harvard University Herbaria, California Academy of Sciences herbarium, Natural History Museum, National Museum of Natural History, Bishop Museum
- contributed to creative work
- Popular Science
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, New International Encyclopedia (1902–1905), Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Larousse Encyclopedia online, Larousse Encyclopedia online, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Darwin's contributions to our understanding of emotional expressions, Darwin, deception, and facial expression, Ferdinand von Mueller's interactions with Charles Darwin and his response to Darwinism, BEIC Digital Library
- educated at
- Christ's College, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Shrewsbury School, University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh
- employer
- Royal Geographical Society
- has works in the collection
- Cambridge University Herbarium, Australian National Maritime Museum, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Herbarium, The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online, J. Paul Getty Museum, Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Memoria Chilena
- influenced by
- Thomas Robert Malthus, John Frederick William Herschel, Herbert Spencer, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, David Hume, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Lyell, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- medical condition
- stuttering, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome
- member of
- Royal Society, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Silesian Society for the Culture of the Fatherland, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Zoological Society of London, French Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences
- member of the crew of
- HMS Beagle
- name in native language
- Charles Robert Darwin
- notable work
- On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection, On the Origin of Species, The Voyage of the Beagle, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Insectivorous Plants, The Power of Movement in Plants, The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms
- owner of
- Down House
- participant in
- Second voyage of HMS Beagle
- place of burial
- Westminster Abbey
- relative
- Ursula Mommens, Josiah Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Robin Darwin, Sarah Darwin, Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, Mary Susan Parker, Robert Parker, Henry Parker, Charles Parker, Francis Parker
- residence
- The Mount
- short name
- Charles Darwin
- significant person
- James Philip Mansel Weale
- student of
- Adam Sedgwick, John Edmonstone
- topic has template
- Template:Charles Darwin, With a monkey’s face Darwin observed that holding the bottle by hand
- topic's main category
- Category:Charles Darwin
- writing language
- English
- Y-DNA Haplogroup
- Haplogroup R1b
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- On the Origin of Species
- The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
- The Voyage of the Beagle
- The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
- The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms
- Fertilisation of Orchids
- Insectivorous Plants
- The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
- Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle
- The Power of Movement in Plants
- The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs
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