René Maugé
René Maugé (born March 15, 1757 in Cély , † February 21, 1802 on Maria Island ) was a French zoologist and animal collector.
Live and act
René Maugé's date of birth is unknown. He was born in Cély (now the Seine-et-Marne department ). From 1796 to 1798 he accompanied his friend Nicolas Baudin to the West Indies . In October 1800 he boarded the corvette Le Géographe in Le Havre and took part as chief zoologist in the Baudin expedition (1800-1804) to the Pacific. In 1802 Maugé fell ill with dysentery on Timor and died on February 21, 1802 on Maria Island .
Honors
In 1830 René Primevère Lesson named the blue-cheeked mistletoe ( Dicaeum maugei ) after Maugé. Charles de Souancé honored him in 1856 in the epithet of the Puerto Rico parakeet ( Aratinga chloroptera maugei ). Other taxa named after Maugé are the Timor dove ( Geopelia maugei ) and the brown backpack snail ( Testacella maugei ). Nicolas Baudin baptized the spot on Maria Island where Maugé was buried, Point Maugé.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erwin Stresemann : Development of ornithology from Aristotle to the present . Limberg 1951, p. 381.
literature
- Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins: Whose Bird ?: Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate . Yale University Press, London 2004, ISBN 978-0300-10359-5 , p. 224
- Anthony J. Brown and Tim Flannery: Ill-Starred Captains: Flinders & Baudin , Freemantle Press, 2004, ISBN 978-1921361296
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maugé, René |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maugé de Cely, René |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French zoologist and animal collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1757 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cély |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1802 |
| Place of death | Maria Island |