François Marie Daudin
Deceased Person
1774 – 1804
Who was François Marie Daudin?
François Marie Daudin was a French zoologist.
With legs paralyzed by childhood disease, he studied of physics and natural history, but ended up being devoted to the latter.
Daudin wrote Traité élémentaire et complet d'Ornithologie in 1799–1800. It was one of the first modern handbooks of ornithology, combining Linnean binomial nomenclature with the anatomical and physiological descriptions of Buffon. While an excellent beginning, it was never completed.
In 1800, he also published Recueil de mémoires et de notes sur des espèces inédites ou peu connues de mollusques, de vers et de zoophytes.
Daudin found his greatest success in herpetology. He published Histoire naturelle des reinettes, des grenouilles et des crapauds in 1802, and Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des reptiles in 1802–1803. This latter work contained descriptions of 517 species, many for the first time, based on examining over 1100 specimens.
He was assisted by his wife Adèle, who drew the illustrations, but his books were commercial failures and the couple lived in poverty. She died of tuberculosis in early 1804, and he followed shortly thereafter, not yet 30 years old.
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- Born
- Mar 25, 1774
Paris - Also known as
- Francois Marie Daudin
- Died
- 1804
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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