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Georges Louis Duvernoy (6 August 1777,
Montbéliard
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Doubs
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. He assisted
Georges Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier ...
in writing ''Leçons d'anatomie comparée''. He was elected a member of the
French Academy of Sciences
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in 1847 and a foreign member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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in 1851.
He studied in
Stuttgart
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Strasbourg
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, and
Paris
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, and in 1802 was asked by Cuvier (a distant cousin) to help edit his masterpiece on
comparative anatomy
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The science began in the classical era, continuing in t ...
. From notes and counsel from Cuvier, Duvernoy prepared the last three volumes of ''Leçons d'anatomie comparée'', writings that involved
respiration
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** Anaerobic respiration, cellular respiration without oxygen
** Maintenance respiration, the amount of cellul ...
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circulation, digestive organs, et al.
In 1805 he returned to Montbéliard, where he worked as a practitioner of medicine. In 1827 he was elected professor to the Faculty of Sciences at Strasbourg, and during the next ten years published a number of treatises on
anatomical subjects. After the death of Cuvier in 1832, he worked at arranging his papers for publication. In 1837 he became a professor of
natural history at the
Collège de France
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Written works
* ''Dissertation sur l'hystérie'', 1801
* ''Notice historique sur les ouvrages et la vie de M. Le B'on Cuvier'', 1833
* ''Leçons sur l'histoire naturelle des corps organisés, professées au Collège de France'', 1839
* ''Résumé sur le fluide nourricier, ses réservoirs et son mouvement, dans tout le règne animal'', 1839
* ''Notice sur les publications d'anatomie comparée, de physiologie'', 1844
* ''Fragments sur les organes génito-urinaires des reptiles et leurs produits'', 1848
* ''Mémoire sur le système nerveux des mollusques acéphales
lamellibranch
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es ou
bivalves
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'', 1853
References
The new American cyclopaedia: Volume 6. edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (biography)
World Cat Identitieslist of publications
1777 births
1855 deaths
Scientists from Montbéliard
French zoologists
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
University of Strasbourg faculty
Collège de France faculty
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