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Georges Cuvier
Also known as Cuvier, Baron Georges Cuvier, Georges, Baron Cuvier, Georges-Léopold-Chrêtien-Frédéric-Dagobert Baron Cuvier, Georges-Leopold-Chretien-Frederic-Dagobert Baron Cuvier, G. Cuvier, G. L. Cuvier, Georges Leopold Cuvier
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Georges Cuvier was a French scientist of the late 1700s and early 1800s who made major contributions to zoology (the study of animals) and paleontology (the study of fossils). His work helped establish these fields as serious scientific disciplines and advanced our understanding of how animals are classified and how extinct species related to living ones.
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- Born
- August 23, 1769
- Died
- May 13, 1832
- Works
- 324
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- Histoire des progrès des science naturelles, depuis 1789 jusqu'a ce jour
- Le r©·gne animal distribu©♭ d'apr©·s son organisation, pour servir de base © l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction © l'anatomie compar©·e
- Sur les especes des animaux carnassiers dont on trouve les ossemens mêlés a ceux d'ours, dans les caverns d'Allemagne et de Hongrie
- Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe, et sur les changemens qu'elles ont produits dans le règne animan
- Histoire naturelle des poissons
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1838-10-25
- Active to
- 1875-06-03
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Georges Cuvier, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Essay on the theory of the earth
Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe et sur les changements qu'elles ont produits dans le règne animal
Histoire des sciences naturelles, depuis leur origine jusquà nos jours chez tous les peuples connus - T.I,: Première Partie, comprenant les siècles antérieurs au 16e de notre ère /
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Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (/ˈkjuːvieɪ/; French: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) kyvje]), was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils.
Cuvier's work is considered the foundation of vertebrate paleontology, and he expanded Linnaean taxonomy by grouping classes into phyla and incorporating both fossils and living species into the classification. Cuvier is also known for establishing extinction as a scientific fact—at the time, extinction was considered by many of Cuvier's contemporaries to be merely controversial speculation. In his Essay on the Theory of the Earth (1813), Cuvier proposed that now-extinct species had been wiped out by periodic catastrophic flooding events. In this way, Cuvier became the most influential proponent of catastrophism in geology in the early 19th century. His study of the strata of the Paris basin with Alexandre Brongniart established the basic principles of biostratigraphy.
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1769 births1832 deaths18th-century French zoologists19th-century French anthropologists19th-century French geologists19th-century French zoologistsAcademic staff of the Collège de FranceBotanists with author abbreviationsBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryCatastrophismChancellors of the University of ParisCommons link from Wikidata
