Polydore Roux
Illustration — Plate from Iconographie conchyliologique Jean Louis Florent Polydore Roux (27 July 1792, Marseille −12 April 1833, Bombay) was a French painter and naturalist. Jean-Louis-Florent-Polydore Roux was, from his childhood, interested in natural history and had a large insect collection. He was taught by Pierre André Latreille and Georges Cuvier at Académie des sciences de l'Institut de France in Paris and was in 1819 appointed curator of the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille.
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Polydore Roux
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- Born
- 1792 · Marseille.
- Died
- 1833
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- naturalist · zoologist · entomologist · malacologist · carcinologist · ornithologist · painter
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Plate from Iconographie conchyliologique Jean Louis Florent Polydore Roux (27 July 1792, Marseille −12 April 1833, Bombay) was a French painter and naturalist. Jean-Louis-Florent-Polydore Roux was, from his childhood, interested in natural history and had a large insect collection. He was taught by Pierre André Latreille and Georges Cuvier at Académie des sciences de l'Institut de France in Paris and was in 1819 appointed curator of the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille.
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Born at Marseille in 1792, died in 1833.
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