Louis Receveur

Deceased Person

1757 – 1788

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Who was Louis Receveur?

Claude-Francois Joseph Louis Receveur was a French Franciscan priest, naturalist and astronomer who sailed with Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse.

Receveur was also considered a skilled botanist, geologist, chemist, meteorologist, and philologist and has been described as being as close as one could get to being an ecologist in the 18th century.

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Born
1757
Died
Feb 17, 1788

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on July 23, 2013

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