Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt

French naturalist

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1751

Place of Birth: Lunéville, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 09-May-1812

Profession: naturalist, botanist, herpetologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt (1 February 1751 – 9 May 1812) was a French naturalist.
Between 1799 and 1808 he wrote 127 volumes of the Histoire naturelle.
Noteworthy among these, especially for herpetologists, is Histoire naturelle des Reptiles, avec figures desinées d'après nature, in four volumes, which he wrote with Pierre André Latreille.
This work includes descriptions and illustrations of many North American reptiles. Another important work attributed to him is The Lost Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, also dubbed the Sonnini manuscript, which was allegedly found in his publication Voyage en Grèce et en Turquie and later published and translated to English some time not earlier than 1801.
The work, which first appeared in London in 1871, has received mixed opinions from different Christians, with most scholars rejecting it as a modern pseudepigraph.



Alternative names	Konrad Westermayr (1765-1834); Conrad Westermayr
Description	German painter, copperplate engraver, engraver and drawer
Date of birth/death	30 January 1765	5 October 1834
Location of birth/death	Hanau	Hanau
Work location	Germany
Authority control	: Q578760 VIAF: 20490683 ISNI: 0000 0000 6638 7835 ULAN: 500074219 LCCN: no2007053091 NLA: 36016859 WorldCat