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Flourens, Marie-Jean-Pierre

Maureilhan, France
13.04.1794

Montgeron, France
08.12.1867

Degrees: M.D., University of Montpellier, 1813
Career: Studies of medicine at the University of Montpellier; 1813 graduation; 1814 physiological research under Georges Cuvier in Paris; 1821 lecturing on the physiological theory of sensations before the distinguished scientific Cercle Athénée; 1828 deputy lecturer of Cuvier at the Collège de France; 1832 professor of comparative anatomy at the Collège de France; 1833 permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences in succession to Cuvier; 1838 deputy for Bézier; 1840 election to the French Academy won against the poet Victor Hugo; 1855 professor of natural history at the Collège de France; together with Arago foundation of the scientific periodical Comptes rendus.
Selected works: Flourens, Marie-Jean-Pierre. 1824. Recherches expérimentales sur les propriétés et les fonctions du système nerveux dans les animaux vertébrés. Paris: Crevot Flourens, Marie-Jean-Pierre. 1842. Examen de la phrénologie. Paris Flourens, Marie-Jean-Pierre. 1854. Histoire de la découverte de la circulation du sang. Paris Flourens, Marie-Jean-Pierre. 1856. Cours de physiologie comparée. Paris Flourens, Marie-Jean-Pierre. 1861. Ontologie naturelle ou étude philosophique des êtres. Paris
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