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Marie Jules César Savigny
French zoologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (French: [maʁi ʒyl sezaʁ ləlɔʁɲ də saviɲi]; 5 April 1777 – 5 October 1851) was a French zoologist and naturalist who served on Emperor Napoleon's Egypt expedition in 1798. He published descriptions of numerous taxa and was among the first to propose that the mouth-parts of insects are derived from the jointed legs of segmented arthropods.
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Born | (1777-04-05)5 April 1777 |
Died | 5 October 1851(1851-10-05) (aged 74) Gally, Saint-Cyr-l'École |
Nationality | French |
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Institutions | Muséum national d'histoire naturelle |
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