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Felipe Poey y Aloy (May 26, 1799 — January 28, 1891) was a Cuba
Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
n zoologist.

was born in Havana
Havana

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, the son of French and Spanish parents. He spent several years (1804 to 1807) of his life in Pau then studied law in Madrid
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. He became a lawyer
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 in Spain
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 but was forced to leave due to his liberal ideas, returning to Cuba in 1823. He began to concentrate on the study of the natural science and travelled to France
France

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 in 1825 with his wife.






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Felipe Poey y Aloy (May 26, 1799 — January 28, 1891) was a Cuba
Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
n zoologist.

Biography

Poey was born in Havana
Havana

Havana is the capital city, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city is one of the 14 Provinces of Cuba. The city/province has 2.1 million inhabitants, and the urban area over 3.5 million, making Havana the largest city in both Cuba and the Caribbean....
, the son of French and Spanish parents. He spent several years (1804 to 1807) of his life in Pau then studied law in Madrid
Madrid

Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
. He became a lawyer
Lawyer

A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an Attorney at law, counsel or solicitor; a person licensed to practice fraud." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain stability, and deliver justice....
 in Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
 but was forced to leave due to his liberal ideas, returning to Cuba in 1823. He began to concentrate on the study of the natural science and travelled to France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 in 1825 with his wife. He began writing on the butterflies of Cuba and acquiring knowledge on fish
Fish

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, later supplying Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier

Baron Georges L?opold Chr?tien Fr?d?ric Dagobert Cuvier was a France natural history and zoology. He was the elder brother of Fr?d?ric Cuvier , also a naturalist....
 and Valenciennes
Achille Valenciennes

Achille Valenciennes was a France zoologist.Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. Valenciennes' study of parasitic worms in humans made an important contribution to the study of parasitology....
 with fish specimens from Cuba. He took part in the foundation, in 1832, of the Société Entomologique de France
Société entomologique de France

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.

Poey returned to Cuba in 1833 where he founded the Museum of Natural History in 1839. In 1842 he became the first professor of zoology and comparative anatomy
Comparative anatomy

Comparative anatomy is the study of similarities and differences in the anatomy of organisms. It is closely related to evolutionary biology and phylogeny ....
 at the University of Havana
University of Havana

The University of Havana or UH is a university located in the Vedado district of Havana, Cuba. Founded in 1728, the University of Havana is the oldest university in Cuba and one of the first to be founded in the Americas....
. He also took part in the creation of the Academy of Science (natural, physical and medical) of Havana and was a president of the anthropological Society.

Works

(selected)
  • Centurie de Lepidoptere de L'Ile de Cuba (Paris, 1832)
  • Compilation of Geography of the Island of Cuba (1836).
  • Memories on the Natural History of the Island of Cuba (1851 et 1856-1858).
  • Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba (2 vols., 1860)
  • Poissons de l'île de Cuba (1874).
  • Ictiología Cubana, a 20-volume work on the fishes of Cuba
  • Enumeratio piscium cubenscrim (1875-1876).


Philately

Cuba commemorated the 175 birthday of Poey’s birth by a series of six stamps and a stamp sheet in 1974. This same country celebrated the 200th anniversary birthday of his birth by the emission of a series of four illustrated fish stamps in 1999. Translated from French Wikipedia