Émile Oustalet
Deceased Person
1844 – 1905
Who was Émile Oustalet?
Jean-Frédéric Émile Oustalet was a French zoologist.
Oustalet was born at Montbéliard, in the department of Doubs. He studied at the Ecole des Hautes-Etudes and his first scientific work was on the respiratory organs of dragonfly larvae. He was employed at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, where he succeeded Jules Verreaux as assistant-naturalist in 1873. In 1900 he succeeded Alphonse Milne-Edwards as Professor of Mammalogy.
He co-authored Les Oiseaux de la Chine with Armand David, and also wrote Les Oiseaux du Cambodge.
Oustalet was president of the third International Ornithological Congress held in Paris in 1900.
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- Born
- Aug 24, 1844
Montbéliard - Also known as
- Emile Oustalet
- Died
- Oct 23, 1905
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on July 23, 2013
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