Marie Firmin Bocourt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marie Firmin Bocourt

French zoologist

Date of Birth: 19-Apr-1819

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

Date of Death: 04-Feb-1904

Profession: zoologist, illustrator, etcher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Marie Firmin Bocourt (19 April 1819 – 4 February 1904) was a French zoologist and artist. As a young man, he worked as a preparateur for the zoologist Gabriel Bibron (1805–1848), later serving as a museum artist.
In 1861, he was sent to Thailand (then called Siam), where he explored the fauna and brought back an important collection of specimens.He collaborated with Auguste Duméril (1812–1870) on a series called Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale, a result of Bocourt's scientific expedition to Mexico and Central America in 1864–1866, in one part during the French Intervention in Mexico led by Napoleon III.
Auguste Duméril died in 1870, and the project was continued by Bocourt with assistance from Léon Vaillant (1834–1914), François Mocquard (1834–1917) and Fernand Angel (1881–1950).
With Vaillant, he published a study on fishes, "Études sur les poissons ", that was included in Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale.As an artist, he specialized in engravings, doing portraits of contemporary people as well as zoological illustrations.



Alternative names	Etienne Carjat; Etiénne Carjat
Description	French journalist, caricaturist and photographer
Date of birth/death	28 March 1828	16 May 1906
Location of birth/death	Fareins	10th arrondissement of Paris
Authority control	: Q2442116 VIAF: 14906582 ISNI: 0000 0000 6651 1955 ULAN: 500026574 LCCN: n82104867 NLA: 36515756 WorldCat