Georges louis leclerc biography

Georges Louis Leclerc was born on September 7, , to Benjamin Francois Leclerc and Anne Cristine Marlin in Montbard, France. He was the eldest of five children born to the couple. Leclerc began his formal studies at the age of ten at the Jesuit College of Gordans in Dijon, France. He went on to study law at the University of Dijon in at the request of his socially influential father. However, his talent and love for mathematics pulled him to the University of Angers in where he created the binomial theorem. Unfortunately, he was expelled from the University in for being involved in a duel.

Personal Life

The Leclerc family was very rik and influential in the country of France. His mother inherited a large sum of money and an estate called Buffon when Georges Louis was ten. He began using the name Georges Louis Leclerc dem Buffon at that time. His mother died shortly after he left the University and left all of her inheritance to Georges L

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Comte de Buffon

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, 7 September April , French naturalist.

Buffon, born George-Louis LeClerc (the name Buffon was inherited with an from his mother when he was twenty-five), was born in Montbard, France, the son of a Burgundian state official, and attended the Jesuit College of Godrans in Dijon. In he followed his father's advice and began to study law, but in he went to Angers to study mathematics, medicine, and botany. In the early s, Buffon traveled with his friend, the Duke of Kingston, and during their stay in England, Buffon was elected a member of the Royal Society.

Shortly thereafter he was recalled to France, where he pursued research in probability and botany, and published translations of Stephen Hales's Vegetable Staticks () and Isaac Newton's Fluxions ().

Buffon was appointed keeper of the French Jardin du Roi (now the Jardin des Plantes) in , an impressive royal post for someone only thirty-two years old. His patron, J.-F.-P

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

French naturalist (–)

For other people named Buffon, see Buffon (disambiguation).

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French:[ʒɔʁʒlwiləklɛʁkɔ̃tdəbyfɔ̃]; 7 September – 16 April ) was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist. He held the position of intendant (director) at the Jardin du Roi, now called the Jardin des plantes.

Buffon's works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including two prominent French scientists Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Buffon published thirty-six quarto volumes of his Histoire Naturelle during his lifetime, with additional volumes based on his notes and further research being published in the two decades following his death.^[1]

Ernst Mayr wrote that "Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century".^[2] Credited with being one of the first naturalists to recognize ecological succes