Henri Émile Sauvage, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henri Émile Sauvage

French paleontologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1842

Place of Birth: Boulogne-sur-Mer, Hauts-de-France, France

Date of Death: 03-Jan-1917

Profession: paleontologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Henri Émile Sauvage (22 September 1842 in Boulogne-sur-Mer – 3 January 1917 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) was a French paleontologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.
He was a leading expert on Mesozoic fish and reptiles.He worked as a curator at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Boulogne-sur-Mer, and published extensively on Late Jurassic dinosaurs and other vertebrates from the Boulonnais region of northern France.
He made important contributions involving vertebrate palaeontology in Portugal, describing in 1897, Suchosaurus girardi from jaw fragments found in that country.From 1883 to 1896 he served as director of the station aquicole in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
He was a member of the Société géologique de France. In 1893 Philippe Thomas published the palaeontological results of the Tunisian Scientific Exploration Mission (1885–1886) in six installments plus an atlas, including the work of Victor-Auguste Gauthier (sea urchins), Arnould Locard (Mollusca), Auguste Péron (Brachiopods, Bryozoa and Pentacrinitess) and Henri Émile Sauvage (fish).The plesiosaurid species Lusonectes sauvagei commemorates his name, as do the crustacean species Pseudanthessius sauvagei and the gecko species Bavayia sauvagii.