biography
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David, Armand
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known as Père Armand David
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pronunciation:
[daveed]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1826–1900)
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| biography:
| French Lazarist missionary and naturalist, born in Espelette in the Pyrenees. Ordained in 1862, he became a missionary in China, where he discovered (1866–74) hundreds of previously unknown botanical and zoological species, many of them sent to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. His most famous discovery was Père David's deer (elaphurus davidianus). |
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