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Oct 14, 1797 Nîmes, Occitania, France Died on 01 Aug 1857 (aged 59)
French zoologist
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About Jean Crespon
- Jean Crespon (14 October 1797, Nîmes – 1 August 1857) was a French zoologist and naturalist. Born into a poor family, he worked as a barber, soldier, and poet before becoming a taxidermist and turning to natural history.
- In 1840 he published his Ornithologie du Gard et des pays circonvoisins (Ornithology of Gard and Environs), a book that covered 321 species of birds.
- The book earned the praise of naturalists that included Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861). In 1844 Crespon published the two-volume La Faune méridionale (Mediterranean Wildlife), in which he described 27 new species. Crespon's natural history collections passed to the Muséum d'histoire naturelle in Nîmes on his death.
