Georges Cuvier

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French person anatomist human naturalist paleontologist scientist zoologist

Georges Cuvier was a pioneering French naturalist and zoologist regarded as the founder of comparative anatomy and paleontology, known for establishing extinction as a scientific fact.

Aliases (1)

Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French person → anatomist → human → naturalist → paleontologist → scientist → zoologist →
awardReceived	Copley Medal →
birthDate	1769-08-23 →
birthPlace	County of Montbéliard → Kingdom of Württemberg → Montbéliard →
burialPlace	Père Lachaise Cemetery →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
deathDate	1832-05-13 →
deathPlace	France → Paris →
educatedAt	Académie Caroline de Stuttgart →
familyName	Cuvier →
fieldOfWork	comparative anatomy → natural history → paleontology → zoology →
fullName	Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier →
givenName	Frédéric → Jean → Léopold → Nicolas →
influenced	Louis Agassiz → Richard Owen →
influencedBy	Buffon → Carl Linnaeus →
knownFor	catastrophism theory → establishing extinction as a scientific fact → founding comparative anatomy → founding vertebrate paleontology → opposition to evolutionary transformism →
memberOf	Académie française → French Academy of Sciences → Prussian Academy of Sciences → Royal Society →
notableWork	Le Règne Animal → Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes → Tableau élémentaire de l’histoire naturelle des animaux →
positionHeld	councillor of state of France → perpetual secretary of the French Academy of Sciences → professor at Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle →
religion	Lutheranism →
theory	catastrophism →
workLocation	Paris →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alexandre Brongniart →	collaboratedWith
Georges Cuvier ("Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier") →	fullName
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon →	influenced
Louis Agassiz →	influencedBy