biography
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Cuvier, Georges (Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert), Baron
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pronunciation:
[küvyay]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1769–1832)
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| biography:
| Anatomist, born in Montbéliard, NE France. In 1795, he was appointed assistant professor of comparative anatomy in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, and in 1798 professor of natural history at the Collège de France. After the Restoration he was made Chancellor of the University of Paris, admitted into the cabinet by Louis XVIII, and under Louis-Philippe was made a peer of France (1831). He originated the natural system of animal classification, and through his studies of animal and fish fossils he established the sciences of palaeontology and comparative anatomy. |
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