Felipe Poey y Aloy (May 26, 1799 — January 28, 1891) was a Cuban zoologist. Events 451 - The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place Year 1799 ( MDCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The Excommunication of Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor is lifted Year 1891 ( MDCCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Republic of Cuba (ˈkjuːbə or) consists of the island of Cuba (the largest and second-most populous island of the Greater Antilles) Isla de la Zoology (from Greek ζῷον, zoon, "animal" + λόγος, " Logos " "knowledge" is the branch of
Biography
Poey was born in Havana, the son of French and Spanish parents. Havana ( IPA: aˈβana officially Ciudad de La Habana, is the Capital city, major port and leading He spent several years (1804 to 1807) of his life in Pau then studied law in Madrid. Pau is a town and ''commune'' in the Aquitaine ''région'' of Madrid (pronounced in English in Spanish and colloquially in Spain) is the Capital and largest city of Spain. He became a lawyer in Spain but was forced to leave due to his liberal ideas, returning to Cuba in 1823. A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law as an attorney, Counsel or Solicitor; a person Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. He began to concentrate on the study of the natural science and travelled to France in 1825 with his wife. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. He began writing on the butterflies of Cuba and acquiring knowledge on fish, later supplying Georges Cuvier and Valenciennes with fish specimens from Cuba. A butterfly is an Insect of the order Lepidoptera. Like all Lepidoptera butterflies are notable for their unusual life cycle with a Fish are aquatic Vertebrate animals that are typically ectothermic (previously Cold-blooded) covered with scales, and equipped with two Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier ( August 23 1769 &ndash May 13, 1832) was a French naturalist Achille Valenciennes ( August 9, 1794 - April 13, 1865) was a French Zoologist. He took part in the foundation, in 1832, of the Société Entomologique de France. The Société entomologique de France, or French Entomological Society is devoted to the study of Insects.
Poey returned to Cuba in 1833 where he founded the Museum of Natural History in 1839. In 1842 he became the first professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Havana. Comparative anatomy is the study of similarities and differences in the Anatomy of Organisms It is closely related to Evolutionary biology and Phylogeny The University of Havana or UH (in Spanish, Universidad de La Habana) is a university located in the Vedado district of Havana He also took part in the creation of the Academy of Science (natural, physical and medical) of Havana and was a president of the anthropological Society.
Works
(selected)
- Centurie de Lepidoptere de L'Ile de Cuba (Paris, 1832)
- Compilation of Geography of the Island of Cuba (1836).
- Memories on the Natural History of the Island of Cuba (1851 et 1856-1858).
- Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba (2 vols. , 1860)
- Poissons de l'île de Cuba (1874).
- Ictiología Cubana, a 20-volume work on the fishes of Cuba
- Enumeratio piscium cubenscrim (1875-1876).
Philately
Cuba commemorated the 175 birthday of Poey’s birth by a series of six stamps and a stamp sheet in 1974. This same country celebrated the 200th anniversary birthday of his birth by the emission of a series of four illustrated fish stamps in 1999. Translated from French Wikipedia
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