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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz was a French polymath of the early 19th century. Born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, he was self-educated in France.
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culture · French polymath and naturalist (1783–1840) · botanist · pteridologist · bryologist · entomologist · zoologist · archaeologist · malacologist · carcinologist · mycologist · ichthyologist · also Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Rafinesque, Raf., Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, C. S. Rafinesque
Born 22 October 1783 · Died 18 September 1840 · Q364857
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1995· 1 entry
Of David Oestreicher's thesis, The Anatomy of the Walam Olum: A 19th Century Anthropological Hoax, many scholars concurred with his analysis
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1896· 1 entry
The fish genus Rafinesquiellus was named by Jordan & Evermann, though it was subsequently synonymized under the genus Etheostoma
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1861· 1 entry
Charles Darwin added a Historical Sketch that acknowledged the ideas of Rafinesque
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1841· 1 entry
Thomas Nuttall named a new genus Rafinesquia after Rafinesque
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1840· 1 entry
Died 1840-09-18.
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1838· 1 entry
The white-spotted lantern fish was named Collettia rafinesquii in his honour by Anastasio Cocco; it has since been moved to Diaphus rafinesquii
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1836· 2 entries
Rafinesque published his first volume of The American Nations
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Rafinesque was the first person to use the term Taíno as a way of referring to the Indigenous peoples of the Greater Antilles
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1832· 1 entry
Was the first to partly decipher ancient Maya
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1819· 1 entry
Rafinesque became professor of botany at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, where he also gave private lessons in French, Italian, and Spanish
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1817· 1 entry
His book Florula Ludoviciana or A Flora of the State of Louisiana was strongly criticized by fellow botanists, which caused his writings to be ignored
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1815· 1 entry
Left her and returned to the United States
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1805· 1 entry
Rafinesque returned to Europe with his collection of botanical specimens, and settled in Palermo, Sicily, where he learned Italian
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1802· 1 entry
At the age of 19, Rafinesque sailed to Philadelphia in the United States with his younger brother
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1783· 1 entry
Born 1783-10-22.
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