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Charles Frédéric Girard (
March 8,
1822 -
January 29,
1895) was a
French biologist specializing on
ichthyology and
herpetology.
Born in
Mulhouse, France, he studied at the College of
Neuchâtel,
Switzerland as a student of
Louis Agassiz. In
1847, he accompagnied Agassiz as his assistant to
Harvard. Three years later,
Spencer Fullerton Baird called him to the
Smithsonian to work on its growing collection of North American
reptiles,
amphibians and
fishes. He worked at the museum for the next ten years and published numerous papers, many in collaboration with Baird.
In
1854, he was naturalized as a
U.S. citizen. Besides his work at the Smithsonian, he managed to earn an
M.D. from
Georgetown University in
Washington, D.C. in
1856. In
1859 he returned to France and was awarded the
Cuvier Prize by the
Institute of France for his work on the North American reptiles and fishes two years later.
When the
American Civil War broke out, he joined the
Confederates as an agent for surgical and medical supplies. After the war, he remained in France and started a medical career. During the
Franco-Prussian War he served as a military physician and published an important paper on the
typhoid fever after the
Siege of Paris. He remained active as a medical doctor until ca.
1888. In the following three years, he published a few more papers on natural history.
He retired in
1891 and spent the rest of his life in
Neuilly-sur-Seine, where he died in
1895.
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