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Georges Cuvier

Also known as Cuvier, Baron Georges Cuvier, Georges, Baron Cuvier, Georges-Léopold-Chrêtien-Frédéric-Dagobert Baron Cuvier, Georges-Leopold-Chretien-Frederic-Dagobert Baron Cuvier, G. Cuvier, G. L. Cuvier, Georges Leopold Cuvier

French naturalist, zoologist and paleontologist (1769–1832)

AI overview

Georges Cuvier was a French scientist of the late 1700s and early 1800s who made major contributions to zoology (the study of animals) and paleontology (the study of fossils). His work helped establish these fields as serious scientific disciplines and advanced our understanding of how animals are classified and how extinct species related to living ones.

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Georges Cuvier is indexed among the 749 entries in Vinony's Académie Française collection. It also appears in Fellows of the Royal Society.

Vinony's link graph records 2,298 inbound references to Georges Cuvier, and connects out to herpetology, Napoleon and anatomy.

It sits within the topics 1769 births, 1832 deaths and 18th-century French zoologists.

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Person · Open Library

Born: August 23, 1769
Died: May 13, 1832
Works: 324

Top works

Histoire des progrès des science naturelles, depuis 1789 jusqu'a ce jour
Le r©·gne animal distribu©♭ d'apr©·s son organisation, pour servir de base © l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction © l'anatomie compar©·e
Sur les especes des animaux carnassiers dont on trouve les ossemens mêlés a ceux d'ours, dans les caverns d'Allemagne et de Hongrie
Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe, et sur les changemens qu'elles ont produits dans le règne animan
Histoire naturelle des poissons

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: France
Active from: 1838-10-25
Active to: 1875-06-03

choraleclassicaleuropeanfrenchfrench composeropera

Discography

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
· 2018 · cited 8,301x
Dynamical mean-field theory of strongly correlated fermion systems and the limit of infinite dimensions
· 1996 · cited 6,412x
Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,522x
Preexposure Chemoprophylaxis for HIV Prevention in Men Who Have Sex with Men
· 2010 · cited 4,373x
Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease
· 2012 · cited 4,299x

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Quotes

“Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.”
“It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.”
“To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power.”
“The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent.”
“The natural food of man, judging from his structure, appears to consist of the fruits, roots, and other succulent parts of vegetables.”

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Wikidata facts

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Commons category: Georges Cuvier
date of birth: 1769-01-01
date of death: 1832-05-13
Commons Creator page: Georges Cuvier
birth name: Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier
Commons gallery: Georges Cuvier
author citation (zoology): Cuvier
P6944: Georges Cuvier
P8168: proscenium
P12749: Kweneng District

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Georges Cuvier, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Essay on the theory of the earth

Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe et sur les changements qu'elles ont produits dans le règne animal

Histoire des sciences naturelles, depuis leur origine jusquà nos jours chez tous les peuples connus - T.I,: Première Partie, comprenant les siècles antérieurs au 16e de notre ère /

Histoire des sciences naturelles, depuis leur origine jusquà nos jours chez tous les peuples connus - T.V,: Troisiéme Partie, comprenant la fin de la deuxiéme moité du 18e siécle et une parie du 19e /

Histoire des sciences naturelles, depuis leur origine jusquà nos jours chez tous les peuples connus - T.IV,: Troisiéme Partie, comprenant la deuxiéme moité du 18e siécle /

Histoire des sciences naturelles, depuis leur origine jusquà nos jours chez tous les peuples connus - T.III,: Troisiéme Partie, comprenant la premiére moité du 18e siécle /

Histoire des sciences naturelles, depuis leur origine jusquà nos jours chez tous les peuples connus - T.II,: Deuxiéme Partie, comprenant les 16e et 17 siécles /

Tableau Élémentaire De L'Histoire Naturelle Des Animaux

Recueil des eloges historiques

Letter from Georges Cuvier to Adelbert von Chamisso

Lorenz Oken to Georges Cuvier

Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer to Georges Cuvier

Carl Heinrich Schultz-Schultzenstein to Georges Cuvier

Georges Baron de Cuvier to Carl Friedrich von Kielmeyer

Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation...

Leçons d'anatomie comparée

Histoire des progrès des sciences naturelles, depuis de 1789 jusqu'a ce jour

Recherches sur les ossemens fossile, ou l'on rétablit les caractères de plusieurs espècies d'animaux dont les révolutions du globe ont detruit les espèces - T. 3,: Contenant les os fossiles des platrières des environs de Paris /

Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée

Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire et à l'anatomie des mollusques

Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation...

Leçons d'anatomie comparée

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Encyclopedic overview

Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (/ˈkjuːvieɪ/; French: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) kyvje]), was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils.

Cuvier's work is considered the foundation of vertebrate paleontology, and he expanded Linnaean taxonomy by grouping classes into phyla and incorporating both fossils and living species into the classification. Cuvier is also known for establishing extinction as a scientific fact—at the time, extinction was considered by many of Cuvier's contemporaries to be merely controversial speculation. In his Essay on the Theory of the Earth (1813), Cuvier proposed that now-extinct species had been wiped out by periodic catastrophic flooding events. In this way, Cuvier became the most influential proponent of catastrophism in geology in the early 19th century. His study of the strata of the Paris basin with Alexandre Brongniart established the basic principles of biostratigraphy.

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