Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton
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Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton | |
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Montbard, Côte-d'Or, France | |
| Died | 1 January 1800 (aged 83) |
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| Fields | naturalist |
Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton (29 May 1716 – 1 January 1800) was a French naturalist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.[1]
Biography
Daubenton was born at
Jardin du Roi
.
In the first section of the Histoire naturelle, Daubenton gave descriptions and details of the dissection of 182 species of
Jardin du Roi
.
Daubenton published many articles in the memoirs of the Parisian
Jardin du Roi. As a lecturer he was in high repute, and to the last retained his popularity. In December 1799 he was appointed a member of the senate
, but at the first meeting which he attended he fell from his seat in an apoplectic fit and, after a short illness, died at Paris.
Daubenton's name is commemorated in several species names, most notably the bizarre lemur the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis). We also have Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentoni) in Europe, and a kale known as Daubentons Kale [1]
Relatives
He is not to be confused with his cousin
Edmé-Louis Daubenton
, who was also a naturalist.
See also
Notes
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References
- Gysel, C (1979), "[Daubenton (1716–1800) and his research on the occipital foramen]", L' Orthodontie française, vol. 50, pp. 377–92, PMID 122116
- Farber, P L (1975), "Buffon and Daubenton: divergent traditions within the Histoire naturelle.", Isis; an International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences, vol. 66, no. 231 (published March 1975), pp. 63–74, S2CID 18201479
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
Media related to Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton at Wikimedia Commons
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