biography
| name: |
Audouin, Jean Victor
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pronunciation:
[ohdwĩ]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1797–1841)
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| biography:
| Entomologist and naturalist, born in Paris, France. Trained as a doctor, he became professor of entomology at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. He was co-author of the Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle (1822), and compiled the ornithological section of the compendious Description de l'Égypte (1826). Audouin's gull was named after him. |
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