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Last Name Orbigny
Given Name Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'
alt. Names A. C. V. M. d. O. ; Alcide Charles Victor d'Orbigny / Dorbigny / botanical shortname: A. D. Orb. ;
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Year born 1802 in Couëron, Loire-Atlantique, France
Year died 1857
Place of death Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, near Paris, France
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Relatives zoologist ->Charles Dessalines d'Orbigny (1806-1876) (brother) ;
Education upbringing in La Rochelle, where he examined sea creatures; in Paris disciple of geologist Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (1777-1861) & Georges Cuvier
Country of Activity France
Worked for Notice géologique sur les environs de Paris (1838) ; Tableau synoptique des terrains et des principales couch ;
Patronage Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN) ;
Collaborators lithographer Delarue ;
Techniques geological, paleontological, and mineralogical drawing and lithography ; hand-colouring ;
Sample(s) upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Orbigny1.jpg ; scientificillustration.tumblr.com/post/4829823222/vintagegal-alcide-dessaline-dorbigny ;
Archival sources
Published sources AKL 29 2001: 40 ; Philippe Taquet: Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802-1857) (Editions L'Harmattan 2003) ; Françoise Legré-Zaidline: Voyage en Alcidie. A a découverte d'Alcide d'Orbigny (1802-1857) (Boubee 1999) ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 877, 1347, 3018, 3021, 3547, 4347 & 4655 ;
other Influential zoologist, paleontologist, and geologist. In 1826, he took part in a 7year expedition to Brasil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia, described in his Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale (9 volumes, 1835-1847).
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