Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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Enlightenment thinker French nobility biologist geologist human naturalist writer

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was an influential 18th-century French naturalist and writer whose multi-volume "Histoire naturelle" helped shape Enlightenment thought on biology, geology, and the history of the Earth.

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Comte de Buffon ×1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Enlightenment thinker → French nobility → biologist → geologist → human → naturalist → writer →
birthDate	1707-09-07 →
birthPlace	Burgundy → Kingdom of France → Montbard →
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of France →
deathDate	1788-04-16 →
deathPlace	Kingdom of France → Paris →
educatedAt	Collège des Godrans → University of Dijon NERFINISHED →
employer	Jardin du Roi →
familyName	Leclerc →
fieldOfWork	anthropology → biology → botany → cosmology → geology → natural history → zoology →
genre	natural history writing → scientific literature →
givenName	Georges-Louis →
influenced	Charles Darwin → Enlightenment natural history → Georges Cuvier → Jean-Baptiste Lamarck →
influencedBy	Isaac Newton → René Descartes →
knownFor	Buffon's needle probability problem → early ideas on species change → theory of the history of the Earth →
languageOfWorkOrName	French →
movement	Age of Enlightenment →
name	Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon →
nobleTitle	Comte de Buffon →
notableWork	Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière →
occupation	cosmologist → encyclopedist → mathematician → naturalist → writer →
positionHeld	intendant of the Jardin du Roi → member of the Académie française → member of the French Academy of Sciences →
religion	Roman Catholicism →

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon →	name
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