Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt
1751–1812
French naturalist and traveller. After studying law, entered the navy in 1772. Travelled in South America, Asia, and Africa. Best known for his collections of rare birds.
Source
Farber 1997, Anderson 1974, Biographie universelle
Bibliography
Anderson, Elizabeth. 1974. La collaboration de Sonnini de Manoncourt à l’Histoire naturelle de Buffon. Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century 120 (1974): 329–358.
Biographie universelle: Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne. Par une société de gens de lettres et de savants. 85 vols. Paris: Michaud; Beck. 1811–62.
Farber, Paul Lawrence. 1997. Discovering birds. The emergence of ornithology as a scientific discipline: 1760–1850. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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