Person

Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine (1744 - 1829)

Born: 1 August 1744
France
Died: 18 December 1829
Occupation: Naturalist and Botanist

Summary

Jean Lamark was appointed botanist to the French king in 1781 and from 1793 was professor of invertebrate zoology at the Museum of Natural History, Paris. He devised one of the earliest hypotheses explaining the evolutionary development of life.

Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine Lamarck - Records, 1820, P2/L; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Published resources

Resources

Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q82122. Details
VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/41849820. Details
'Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de (17440801-18291218)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1464742. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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