Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre [SEP] place of death
Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre
Abbé Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752, Aveyron – 20 September 1804, Saint-Geniez) was a French naturalist who contributed sections on cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects to the "Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique". He is also notable as the first scientist to study the feral child Victor of Aveyron.
Bonnaterre is credited with identifying about 25 new species of fish, and assembled illustrations of about 400 in his encyclopedia work.
He was the first scientist to study Victor
Pierre-Joseph
Pierre-Joseph (also Pierre Joseph) is a given name and can refer to:
- Pierre-Joseph Alary, (1689–1770), French ecclesiastic and writer
- Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741–1824) French physician and naturalist
- Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752–1804), French naturalist
- Pierre-Joseph Bourcet (1700–1780), French tactician, general, chief of staff, mapmaker and military educator
- Pierre-Joseph Cambon, (1756–1820), French statesman
- Arthur Cardin