| Authorised form of name | Cuvier; Georges (1769 - 1832) |
| Other forms of name | Baron Cuvier |
| Other forms of surname | Baron Cuvier |
| Dates | 1769 - 1832 |
| Nationality | French |
| Place of birth | Montbeliard, France |
| Date of birth | 23 August 1769 |
| Place of death | Paris, France |
| Date of death | 13 May 1832 |
| Research field | Zoology |
| Palaeontology |
| History of science |
| Activity | Education:
Stuttgart (studied for the ministry)
Career:
Tutor, Normandy (1788-1794); Assistant to the Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Jardin des Plantes (1795); Permanent Secretary, Academie des Sciences, Paris (1803); Chancellor, University of Paris (after the Restoration); member of Louis XVIII's cabinet; Grand Officer, Legion d'Honneur (1826); Peer of France (1831); Minister of the Interior (1832)
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| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 17/04/1806 |
| Relationships | From a Huguenot family; brother of Frederic Cuvier (For Mem RS 1835) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Authority:
AltName from The Times, 23 August 2001
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1832-1833 No 11 pp 150-152
References:
Martin Rudwick, 'Charles Lyell, FRS (1797-1875) and His London Lectures on Geology, 1832-33' in NR 1974-5 vol 29 pp 231-263 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/4981028 |
| Code | NA8191 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| M/056 | Cuvier, Georges, Baron | |
| EC/1805/21 | Cuvier, Georges: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| CB/1/3/189 | Draft of a letter from Charles Blagden to G Cuvier | 26 December 1815 |
| CB/1/3/188 | Draft of a letter from Charles Blagden to G Cuvier | 25 November 1806 |
| CB/1/3/186 | Letter from G Cuvier, Paris to Charles Blagden | 23 May 1815 |
| CB/1/3/187 | Letter from G Cuvier, Institut National, Paris to Charles Blagden | [1806] |
| MS/251/4 | Note from Georges Cuvier, Castle Street, Holborn, to William Buckland, Salopian Coffee House, Charing Cross | 18 June 1818 |
| M/055 | Cuvier, Georges, Baron | |
| IM/001031 | Cuvier, Georges Baron | nd |
| PT/51/8 | Paper, 'On the megatherium, (Megatherium americanum, Cuvier and Blumenbach), part II. Vertebrœ of the trunk' by Professor [Richard] Owen | [1850] |
| PP/19/11 | Paper, 'The nature of the shoulder girdle and clavicular arch in Sauropterygia' by Harry Govier Seeley | 1892 |
| PT/73/8/12 | Painting, dugong skull and tusk by W H [William Home] Clift | [1820] |
| HS/25/2/26 | Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Georges C. L. D. Cuvier, dated at Slough | 27 October 1831 |