Léon Jean Marie Dufour
Deceased Person
1780 – 1865
Who was Léon Jean Marie Dufour?
Léon Jean Marie Dufour was a French medical doctor and naturalist.
Between 1799 and 1806 he studied medicine in Paris then returned to Saint-Sever in the Landes. He participated as an army doctor in the Peninsular War. The war over, he returned to his birthplace. In 1854, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Dufour’s gland, an abdominal gland found in the females of nearly all members of the suborder Apocrita, is named after him.
During his life he published, 232 articles on arthropods and was the author of Recherches anatomiques sur les Carabiques et sur plusieurs autres Coléoptères.
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- Born
- Apr 11, 1780
Saint-Sever - Also known as
- Leon Jean Marie Dufour
- Nationality
- France
- Died
- Apr 18, 1865
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on July 23, 2013
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