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Augusto de Saint-Hilaire: French Entomologist and Botanist

1988; Elsevier BV; Volume: 63; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0025-6196(12)62368-4

1942-5546

Marc A. Shampo, Robert A. Kyle,

Animal and Plant Science Education

Augusto de Saint-Hilaire was born in Orléans, France, on Oct. 4, 1779. In 1816, he left France for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. While in South America, Saint-Hilaire surveyed the flora and fauna of Brazil for 6 years. During his travels in South America, he made interesting anthropologic, botanical, and pharmacognostic observations. In 1822, Saint-Hilaire returned to Paris with 24,000 plants, 2,000 birds, 16,000 insects, 135 quadrupeds, and many reptiles, fish, and minerals—a collection he had hoped to classify but never succeeded in doing. In 1830, Saint-Hilaire was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences and became a professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris. He died in La Turpiniére, near Sennely, Loiret, in France on Sept. 30, 1853. He was honored on a stamp issued by France in 1953 on the 100th anniversary of his death.