Étienne Wolff (

Auxerre Auxerre ( , , Burgundian language (Oïl), Burgundian: ''Auchoirre'') is the capital (Prefectures in France, prefecture) of the Yonne Departments of France, department and the fourth-largest city in the Burgundy historical region southeast of Par ...

, 12 February 1904 – Paris, 18 November 1996) was a French biologist, specialising in experimental and teratological

embryology Embryology (from Ancient Greek, Greek ἔμβρυον, ''embryon'', "the unborn, embryo"; and -λογία, ''-logy, -logia'') is the branch of animal biology that studies the Prenatal development (biology), prenatal development of gametes (sex ...

. He led the Société zoologique de France from 1958 and was elected to the

French Academy of Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (, ) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific method, scientific research. It was at the forefron ...

in 1963.

Personal life

He was educated at the

Lycée Pierre-Corneille The Lycée Pierre-Corneille (; also known as the Lycée Corneille) is a state secondary school located in the city of Rouen, France. Founded by the Jesuits in 1593, the school was secularized following the 1905 French law on the Separation of th ...

Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine, in northwestern France. It is in the prefecture of Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one ...

.Lycée Pierre Corneille de Rouen - History
27 February 2014. Wolff was an advocate of

animal rights Animal rights is the philosophy according to which many or all Animal consciousness, sentient animals have Moral patienthood, moral worth independent of their Utilitarianism, utility to humans, and that their most basic interests—such as ...

. He was President of the French League for Animal Rights (1984-1986)."The LFDA and Animal Ethics in France"
Retrieved 14 January 2022.

Works

*''Thèses présentées à la Faculté des sciences de l'Université de Strasbourg pour obtenir le grade de docteur ès-sciences naturelles. 1re thèse : Les Bases de la tératogénèse expérimentale des vertébrés amniotes d'après les résultats de méthodes directes. 2e thèse : L'Évolution après l'éclosion des poulets mâles transformés en intersexués par l'hormone femelle injectée aux jeunes embryons'' (1936) *''Les Changements de sexe'' (1946) *''La Science des monstres'' (1948) *''Les Chemins de la vie'' (1963) *''The Living Organism'' (1965) *''La poésie funéraire épigraphique à Rome'' (1971) *''Les Pancrates, nos nouveaux maîtres'' (1975) *''Dialogues avec mes animaux familiers'' (1979) *''Trois pattes pour un canard'' (1990)

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Académie française
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wolff, Etienne 1904 births 1996 deaths 20th-century French biologists French animal rights activists French embryologists French people of German descent Lycée Pierre-Corneille alumni Members of the French Academy of Sciences People from Auxerre Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences