François Marie Daudin

François Marie Daudin is a Zoologiste French, born the March 25th 1774 with Paris and died in 1804.

A disease which it contracts in childhood returns it paralyzed lower extremities. It is devoted then to the study of the Physique and the Natural history but ends up being devoted to the latter.

Daudin is the author of elementary and complete Traité of ornithology (in 1799 - 1800). It is about the first true handbook of Ornithologie, combining the binomial Taxinomie linnéenne with anatomical and physiological descriptions of Buffon. It is a not very exact work and which remained incomplete

It also publishes a Recueil of memories and notes on species new or little known of molluscs, worms and zoophytes… in 1800.

But its true specialization is the Herpétologie. It thus publishes a Natural history of the rennets, frogs and clamping plates… (in 1802) and a Natural history, general and particular of the reptiles (in 8 volumes in-8, in 1802 - 1803), which makes following the Buffon of Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1751-1812), and which is estimated than its Ornithologie . This last work contains the description of 517 species, certain news for the science, based on the examination of more than 1 100 specimens. François Daudin is assisted by his wife, Adèle, who carries out the illustrations. But its books are a commercial failure and the couple lives in misery. Daudin dies of Tuberculose little time after his wife, with the end of the year 1804: it was not thirty years old.

It is him which, the first, defines the concept of family.

Sources

Jean Lescure & Bernard Garff, etymology of the names of Amphibians and reptiles . Belin editions, 2006. ISBN 2-7011-4142-7

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