Mathurin Jacques Brisson

Also known as Briss., Brisson

French zoologist and natural philosopher

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Born: 1723
Died: 1806
Works: 28

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Regnum animale in classes IX distributum, sive, Synopsis methodica sistens generalem animalium distributionem in classes IX, & duarum primarum classium, quadrupedum scilicet & cetaceorum, particularem divisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera & species
Rapport fait à l'Académie royale des sciences
Ornithologia, sive, Synopsis methodica sistens avium divisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates
Regnum animale in classes IX distributum, sive Synopsis methodica sistena generalem animalium distributionem in classes IX, & duarum primarum classium, quadrupedum scilicet & cetaceorum, particularem divisionem in ordines, sectiones, genera & species
Traité élémentaire, ou, Principes de physique ...

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Type: Person
Country: FR
Active from: 1819-06-20
Active to: 1880-10-05

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Mathurin Jacques Brisson ( French pronunciation: [matyʁɛ̃ ʒak bʁisɔ̃]; 30 April 1723 – 23 June 1806) was a French zoologist and natural philosopher.

Brisson was born on 30 April 1723 at Fontenay-le-Comte in the Vendée department of western France. His parents wished him to take ecclesiastic orders, but in 1747, he abandoned his studies, and from 1749, was employed by the wealthy French naturalist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur as the curator of a large private collection of objects related to natural history that de Réaumur kept at his ancestral home at Réaumur in the Vendée.