Marie Jules César Savigny
Marie Jules César Savigny | |
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| Born | 5 April 1777 |
| Died | 5 October 1851 (aged 74) Gally, Saint-Cyr-l'École |
| Nationality | French |
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| Institutions | Muséum national d'histoire naturelle |
Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (French: [maʁi ʒyl sezaʁ ləlɔʁɲ də saviɲi]; 5 April 1777 – 5 October 1851) was a French zoologist and naturalist who served on Emperor Napoleon's Egypt expedition in 1798. He published descriptions of numerous taxa and was among the first to propose that the mouth-parts of insects are derived from the jointed legs of segmented arthropods.