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Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (
May 29,
1716 –
January 1,
1800) was a
French naturalist.
Daubenton was born at
Montbard (
Côte d'Or). His father, Jean Daubenton, a
notary, intended him for the church, and sent him to
Paris to study
theology, but he was more interested in
medicine. Jean's death in
1736 set his son free to choose his own career, and in
1741 he graduated in medicine at
Reims, and returned to his native town planning to practise as a
physician. At about this time,
Buffon, also a native of Montbard, was about to bring out a grand treatise on
natural history, and in
1742 he invited Daubenton to assist him by providing the anatomical descriptions for that work. The two men were complete opposites, but worked well in partnership. In 1744, he became a member of the
French Academy of Sciences as an adjunct botanist, and a full member in 1795.
In the first section of the natural history Daubenton gave descriptions and details of the dissection of 182 species of
quadrupeds, thus procuring for himself a high reputation, and exciting the envy of
Réaumur, who considered himself the expert on natural history in
France. Jealousy induced Buffon to dispense with the services of Daubenton in the preparation of the subsequent parts of his work, which, as a consequence, lost much in precision and scientific value. Buffon afterwards acknowledged his error, and renewed their association.
Daubenton published many dissertations on natural history in the memoirs of the
Académie française. Zoological descriptions and dissections, the
comparative anatomy of recent and
fossil animals,
vegetable physiology,
mineralogy, experiments in
agriculture, and the introduction of the
merino sheep into France occupied him; and he was a great asset to the cabinet of natural history in Paris, of which in
1744 he was appointed keeper and demonstrator. From
1775 Daubenton lectured on natural history in the college of medicine, and in
1783 on rural economy at the Alfort school. He was also professor of mineralogy at the
Jardin du Roi. As a lecturer he was in high repute, and to the last retained his popularity. In December
1799 he was appointed a member of the
senate, but at the first meeting which he attended he fell from his seat in an apoplectic fit, and after a short illness died at Paris.
He isn't to be confused with his cousin
Edmé-Louis Daubenton, who was also a naturalist.
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