Cuvier, Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Baron de

David R Oldroyd, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Published online: May 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002393

1769–1832 French zoologist, comparative anatomist, and administrator, well known for his ‘catastrophism’, but also one of the principal founders of geology as a geohistorical science.

Keywords: comparative anatomy; zoological classification; catastrophism; palaeontology; stratigraphy

 Further Reading
    Cuvier G (1812) Sur un nouveau rapprochement à établir entre les classes qui composent le règne animal. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 19: 73–84.
    book Cuvier G (1813) Essay on the Theory of the Earth . . . with . . . an Account of his Geological Discoveries, translated by R Kerr. Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: Robert Kerr.
    book Balan B (1979) L'Ordre et le Temps: L'Anatomie Comparée et l'Histoire des Vivantes au XIXe Siècle. Paris: J. Vrin.
    book Coleman W (1964) Georges Cuvier Zoologist: A Study in the History of Evolution Theory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
    Eigen EA (1997) Overcoming first impressions: Georges Cuvier's types. Journal of the History of Biology 30: 179–209.
    Foucault M (1970) La situation de Cuvier dans l'histoire de la biologie. Revue d'Histoire des Sciences et de leurs Applications 23: 62–69.
    book Laurent G (1987) Paléontologie et Évolution en France de 1800 à 1860: Une Histoire des Idées de Cuvier et Lamarck à Darwin. Paris: Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques.
    book Outram D (1984) Georges Cuvier: Vocation, Science and Authority in Post-Revolutionary Science. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
    book Rudwick MJS (1997) Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes: New Translations and Interpretations of the Primary Texts. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
    book Smith JC (1993) Georges Cuvier: An Annotated Bibliography of his Published Works. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

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Oldroyd, David R(May 2001) Cuvier, Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Baron de. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002393]