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Georges Cuvier
French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 23 August 1769, 24 August 1769, 1769
- Died
- 13 May 1832
- Place of birth
- Montbéliard
- Place of death
- Paris, former 12th arrondissement of Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Cuvier
- Spouse
- Anne-Marie Duvaucel
- Child
- Clémentine Cuvier
- Sibling
- Frédéric Cuvier
- Field of work
- comparative anatomy, zoology, paleontology, natural science
- Occupation
- paleontologist, politician, zoologist, ornithologist, university teacher, professor, malacologist, ichthyologist, botanist, philosopher, anthropologist, writer
- Position held
- member of the Chamber of Peers, director of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, seat 35 of the Académie française
- Citizenship
- France
- Religion
- Protestantism
- Awards
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 72 names on the Eiffel Tower
- archives at
- Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Archive
- author citation (zoology)
- Cuvier
- birth name
- Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier
- cause of death
- cholera
- collection items at
- Victoria and Albert Museum, Natural History Museum
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5, The New Student's Reference Work, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
- doctoral student
- Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
- educated at
- University of Stuttgart
- interested in
- paleontology
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Royal Society, Société Philomathique de Paris, Académie Française, Academy of Science for Public Utility, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Russian Academy of Sciences
- noble title
- baron
- notable work
- Le Règne Animal
- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery, Grave of Georges Cuvier
- relative
- Alfred Duvaucel, Sophie Duvaucel
- student of
- Johann Simon von Kerner
- topic's main category
- Category:Georges Cuvier
- work location
- Paris
- writing language
- French
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- Le Règne Animal
- Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature...
- Histoire Naturelle des Poissons
- Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, ed. 2
- Template:Cuvier, 1798
- A history of the earth and animated nature
- The class Pisces
- The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization
- Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization
- Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization
- Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences, with the Animal kingdom of the Baron Cuvier
- Essay on the theory of the earth
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