Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest

See also: Desmarest

Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (March 6th 1784 with Paris - June 4th 1838 with Alfort) is a zoologist French, wire of the Géologue Nicolas Desmarest (1725 - 1815).

It makes its studies with the central École, then with the Prytanée. Protected by Lacépède (1756-1825), Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) raises and Alexandre Brongniart (1770-1847), it devotes its leisures to the Natural history. As from 1814, he teaches the Zoologie with the École veterinary surgeon d' Alford. In 1820, he becomes member of the Académie of medicine.

Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest makes appear many publications on the Fossile S. It is also the author of Natural history of the Tanagers, Manakins and Todiers (1805), of general Considérations on the class of the shellfish (1825) and a Dictionnaire of the Natural science (1816-1830), with André Marie Constant Duméril (1774-1860).

He is the father of the Entomologiste Eugene Anselme Sebastien Leon Desmarest (1816-1889).

Source

Article of St the Turner in Novel D' Amat and R. Limouzin-Lamothe (to dir.) (1962), Dictionary of French biography , volume tenth: Dallier - Desplagnes, Letouzey Bookstore and Ané (Paris): 1437.

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