Felipe Poey

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Felipe Poey

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Felipe Poey y Aloy (May 26, 1799 — January 28, 1891) was a Cuban zoologist.

Biography

Poey was born in Havana, the son of French and Spanish parents. He spent several years (1804 to 1807) of his life in Pau then studied law in Madrid. He became a lawyer in Spain but was forced to leave due to his liberal ideas, returning to Cuba in 1823. He began to concentrate on the study of the natural science and travelled to France in 1825 with his wife. He began writing on the butterflies of Cuba and acquiring knowledge on fish, later supplying Georges Cuvier and Valenciennes with fish specimens from Cuba. He took part in the foundation, in 1832, of the Société Entomologique de France.

Poey returned to Cuba in 1833 where he founded the Museum of Natural History in 1839. In 1842 he became the first professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Havana. He also took part in the creation of the Academy of Science (natural, physical and medical) of Havana and was a president of the anthropological Society.

Works

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Centurie de Lepidoptere de L'Ile de Cuba (Paris, 1832)
Compilation of Geography of the Island of Cuba (1836).
Memories on the Natural History of the Island of Cuba (1851 et 1856-1858).
Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba (2 vols., 1860)
Poissons de l'île de Cuba (1874).
Ictiología Cubana, a 20-volume work on the fishes of Cuba
Enumeratio piscium Cubensium (1875–1876).

Philately

Cuba commemorated the 175 birthday of Poey’s birth by a series of six stamps and a stamp sheet in 1974. This same country celebrated the 200th anniversary birthday of his birth by the emission of a series of four illustrated fish stamps in 1999.

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References

Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "Poey, Felipe". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton

External links

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David S. Jordan (August 1884). "Sketch of Professor Felipe Poey". Popular Science Monthly 25.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 143831 LCCN: n87116042 ISNI: 0000 0000 8349 2805 GND: 100549497 SUDOC: 116380934 BNF: cb15366729q

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Name	Poey, Felipe
Alternative names
Short description	Cuban naturalist
Date of birth	May 26, 1799
Place of birth	Havana
Date of death	January 28, 1891
Place of death	Havana

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