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Julien-Joseph Virey
Julien-Joseph Virey (21 December 1775, Langres – 9 March 1846) was a French naturalist and anthropologist.
Biography.
Julien-Joseph Virey grew up in Hortes village in southern Haute-Marne, where he had access to a library. He educated himself and became an apprentice to his uncle, a pharmacist. Arriving in Paris, he attended the League of Ideologues and Human Observers.
He later studied medicine and became a medical doctor. After becoming a protégé of Antoine Parmentier
, 1824)
- "Homme" in "Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle appliquée aux arts" (new edition - Paris: Deterville, 1817)
- "Natural History of the Negro Race" translated by J.H. Geunebault (Charleston, South Caroline: D.J. Dowling, 1837)
Further reading.
- Claude Benichou, Claude Blanckaert. "Julien Joseph Virey, naturalist and anthropologist," Paris: VRIN, 1988
- Pietro Corsi, "Julien-Joseph Virey, the first critic of Lamarck," "History