Louis Jean-Marie Dobanton ( fr. Louis Jean-Marie D'Aubenton , also Daubenton; May 29, 1716 , Montbar - December 31, 1799 , Paris ) - French naturalist , member of the French and St. Petersburg academies.
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Especially known as the chief collaborator in the years 1749-1767, Buffon's "Natural History", in which he placed extensive anatomical studies, remarkable for their accuracy; gave a comparative anatomical characterization of 182 species of mammals, of which over 50 were first prepared; 7 species of bats were not known before.
Dobanton used a method of comparing the same organs, as well as skeletons in various animals. In addition, he was engaged in the acclimatization of domestic animals, bred a new breed of merino sheep; author of the manual on sheep breeding ( 1782 ).
After the death of Buffon (1788), he was a professor at the Plant Garden ( Jardin des Plantes ) in Paris, and died in this position.
In the Parisian Acclimatic Garden ( Jardin d'acclimatation ) he erected a marble statue.
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 100102042 // General Normative Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ Committee of historical and scientific works - 1834.
- ↑ http://sdei.senckenberg.de/biographies/information.php?id=19360
Literature
- Dobanton Louis Jean Marie // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978. (Retrieved August 7, 2010)
- Dobanton, Louis-Jean-Marie // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.