Achille Valenciennes

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Achille Valenciennes

Born	(1794-08-09)9 August 1794 Paris, France
Died	13 April 1865(1865-04-13) Paris, France
Nationality	French
Fields	Parasitology Zoology
Institutions	Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

Achille Valenciennes (9 August 1794–13 April 1865) was a French zoologist.^[1]

Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. Valenciennes' study of parasitic worms in humans made an important contribution to the study of parasitology. Valenciennes also carried out diverse systematic classifications, linking fossil and current species.

He worked with Cuvier on the 22-volume Histoire Naturelle des Poissons (Natural History of Fish) (1828–1848), carrying on alone after Cuvier died in 1832.^[2] In 1832 he succeeded Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850) as chair of Histoire naturelle des mollusques, des vers et des zoophytes at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.

Early in his career, he was tasked of classifying animals described by Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) during his travels in the American tropics (1799 to 1803), and a lasting friendship was established between the two men.^[3] He is the binomial authority for many species of fish, such as the bartail jawfish.

References

↑ "Achille VALENCIENNES" (in French). Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
↑ Lachaise; Valenciennes Achille (1794-1865)-biography
↑ Larousse Encyclopedia (translated biography)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 12420935 LCCN: n87111248 ISNI: 0000 0000 8091 7425 GND: 117339385 SUDOC: 034784608 BNF: cb125502199

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Name	Valenciennes, Achille
Alternative names
Short description	French parasitologist
Date of birth	9 August 1794
Place of birth	Paris, France
Date of death	13 April 1865
Place of death	Paris, France

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