1834 Original antique print SPIDER EPEIRA Arachnid (CAK168)

CUVIER, Georges

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1834Original antique print published for CUVIER ANIMAL KINGDOM by George Henderson, London. With original hand colour. Size approx 12cm x 21.5cm including margins. Condition is fine.Georges Cuvier was born on August 23, 1769, at Montbandeacute;liard, a French-speaking community in the Jura Mountains that was not under French jurisdiction at the time; it was ruled by the Duke of Wanduuml;rttemberg. Cuvier studied at a school which the Duke had founded, the Carolinian Academy in Stuttgart, from 1784 to 1788. He then took a position as tutor to a noble family in Normandy, which kept him out of the way of the worst of the violence of the French Revolution; there he was named to a position in the local government and began to make his reputation as a naturalist. In 1795,Geoffroy Saint-Hilaireinvited him to come to Paris; he was appointed an assistant, and shortly thereafter a professor of animal anatomy, at the newly reformed Musandeacute;e National dHistoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History). Cuvier stayed at his post when Napoleon came to power, and was appointed to several government positions, including Inspector-General of public education and State Councillor, by Napoleon. Cuvier continued as a state councillor under three successive Kings of France; he thus accomplished the almost unbelievable feat of serving under three different, opposing French governments (Revolution, Napoleonic, and monarchy) and dying in his bed. All the while, Cuvier lectured and did research at the Musandeacute;e National, amazing his colleagues with his energy and devotion to science. By the time of his death he had been knighted and made a Baron and a Peer of France. Seller Inventory # CAK168-5129263

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