Alcide d'Orbigny, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alcide d'Orbigny

French scientist

Date of Birth: 06-Sep-1802

Place of Birth: Couëron, Pays de la Loire, France

Date of Death: 30-Jun-1857

Profession: zoologist, geologist, biologist, ornithologist, paleontologist, botanist, entomologist, archaeologist, explorer, malacologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology. D'Orbigny was born in Couëron (Loire-Atlantique), the son of a ship's physician and amateur naturalist.
The family moved to La Rochelle in 1820, where his interest in natural history was developed while studying the marine fauna and especially the microscopic creatures that he named "foraminiferans". In Paris he became a disciple of the geologist Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (1777–1861) and Georges Cuvier.
All his life, he would follow the theory of Cuvier and stay opposed to Lamarckism.