Louis Pierre Vieillot

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Louis Pierre Vieillot was a French ornithologist known for his pioneering work in classifying and describing numerous bird species in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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instanceOf human
ornithologist
taxonomist
activeInPeriod early 19th century
late 18th century
contributedTo early modern bird nomenclature
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1748-05-10
dateOfDeath 1830-08-24
describedTaxon many North American bird species
many South American bird species
numerous passerine birds
era Age of Enlightenment
Napoleonic era
ethnicGroup French
fieldOfWork ornithology
zoology
gender male
hasFamilyName Vieillot
hasGivenName Louis
Pierre
hasWorkLocation France
Paris
influenced later 19th-century ornithologists
knownAs Louis Pierre Vieillot
surface form: L. P. Vieillot
languageOfWorkOrName French
notableFor describing numerous new bird species
early use of life histories in bird descriptions
pioneering work in bird classification
systematic treatment of bird plumage changes
notableWork Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
surface form: Galerie des oiseaux

Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l’Amérique Septentrionale
Nouveau dictionnaire d’histoire naturelle
occupation naturalist
ornithologist
placeOfBirth France
Normandy (administrative region)
surface form: Normandy

Yvetot
placeOfDeath France
Rouen
studied life histories of birds
taxonNameAuthorAbbreviation Vieillot
usedTaxonomicSystem Systema Naturae
surface form: Linnaean system
workedOn classification of birds
description of new bird genera
description of new bird species

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