Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest

French zoologist

Date of Birth: 06-Mar-1784

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 04-Jun-1838

Profession: writer, physician, zoologist, ornithologist, entomologist, carcinologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (March 6, 1784 – June 4, 1838) was a French zoologist and author.
He was the son of Nicolas Desmarest and father of Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest.
Desmarest was a disciple of Georges Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart, and in 1815, he succeeded Pierre André Latreille to the professorship of zoology at the École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort.
In 1820 he was elected to the Académie Nationale de Médecine. Desmarest published Histoire Naturelle des Tangaras, des Manakins et des Todiers (1805), Considérations générales sur la classe des crustacés (1825), Mammalogie ou description des espèces des Mammifères (1820) and Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (1816–30, with André Marie Constant Duméril). The brown algae Desmarestia is named in honour of Desmarest, as well as the family (Desmarestiaceae) — and in turn, the order (Desmarestiales) — of which the genus is the type species.

Ambroise Tardieu (1788–1841)
Description	French cartographer and engraver
Date of birth/death	2 March 1788	17 January 1841
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Authority control	: Q4741738 VIAF: 32043382 ISNI: 0000 0001 2126 7247 ULAN: 500012010 LCCN: n92107594 NLA: 35958047 WorldCat