Alexandre Brongniart

Alexandre Brongniart
Alexandre Brongniart
Born5 February 1770 (1770-02-05)[1]
Died7 October 1847 (1847-10-08) (aged 77)[1]
NationalityFrench
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsSèvres - Cité de la céramique
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Portrait of Alexandre Brongniart by Emile-Charles Wattier, 1847

Alexandre Brongniart (5 February 1770 – 7 October 1847) 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. Observing fossil content as well as lithology in sequences, he classified Tertiary formations and was responsible for defining 19th century geological studies as a subject of science by assembling observations and classifications.[2]

Brongniart was also the founder of the Musée national de Céramique-Sèvres (National Museum of Ceramics), having been director of the Sèvres Porcelain Factory from 1800 to 1847.

  1. ^ a b "Alexandre Brongniart (1770-1847)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
  2. ^ The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists Third Edition Volume I. NEW YORK: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 2000.