Georges Cuvier

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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.

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Georges Cuvier canonical 16
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier 2

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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 Georges Cuvier self-linksurface differs
surface form: Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier
givenName Frederic
surface form: Frédéric

Jean
Léopold
Nicholas
surface form: 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
Académie des Sciences
surface form: French Academy of Sciences

Prussian Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
notableWork Le Règne Animal
Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes
Le Règne Animal
surface form: 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

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Louis Agassiz influencedBy Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier fullName Georges Cuvier self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier
Alexandre Brongniart collaboratedWith Georges Cuvier
Crocodylidae describedBy Georges Cuvier
Cuvier usedBy Georges Cuvier
County of Montbéliard notableResident Georges Cuvier
County of Montbéliard birthplaceOf Georges Cuvier
Le Règne Animal author Georges Cuvier
Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes authorFullName Georges Cuvier
this entity surface form: Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier
Jean alsoKnownAs Georges Cuvier
subject surface form: Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier
Léopold isUsedBy Georges Cuvier
Bembridae describedBy Georges Cuvier
Gaston de Lacaze-Duthiers influencedBy Georges Cuvier