1. Alexandre Brongniart was a French chemist, mineralogist, geologist, paleontologist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris.
13 Facts About Alexandre Brongniart
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Alexandre Brongniart was born in Paris, the son of the architect Alexandre-Theodore Brongniart and father of the botanist Adolphe-Theodore Brongniart.
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Alexandre Brongniart was appointed in 1800 by Napoleon's minister of the interior Lucien Bonaparte director of the revitalized porcelain manufactory at Sevres, holding this role until death.
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Alexandre Brongniart remained in charge of Sevres, through regime changes, for 47 years.
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Alexandre Brongniart introduced a new classification of reptiles and wrote several treatises on mineralogy and the ceramic arts.
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Alexandre Brongniart made an extensive study of trilobites and made pioneering contributions to stratigraphy by developing fossil markers for dating strata.
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Alexandre Brongniart was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1819 and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1823.
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However, even-though he classified Batrachia as a sub-class of Reptilia, Alexandre Brongniart noticed a huge difference in the anatomy of Batrachia compared to the rest of the class.
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The most significant geological work for Alexandre Brongniart was Essai sur la geographie mineralogique des environs de Paris in collaboration with Georges Cuvier on studies of geology around Paris in 1811.
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Alexandre Brongniart found that some of the strata had marine mollusk fossils, and some had fresh water mollusk fossils.
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Alexandre Brongniart used the alternation of these marine and fresh water layers to disprove the theory that strata was deposited by a shrinking ocean.
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In 1822, Alexandre Brongniart published the first full-length study of trilobites in which he classified a variety from Europe and North America and tried to group them based on age.
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Alexandre Brongniart's wife was Cecile Coquebert de Montbret, the daughter of the French consul to England, Charles-Etienne Coquebert de Montbret.