Charles Dumont de Sainte Croix

Charles Henri Frédéric Dumont de Sainte Croix (* April 27, 1758 in Oisement in Abbeville, † January 8, 1830 ) was a French lawyer and amateur ornithologist. His author abbreviation is Dumont.

Life

His father was the royal judge Jean Charles Nicolas Dumont († 1788). Charles Dumont became a lawyer at the royal court in Paris, Head of Department in the Ministry of Justice Louis Gohier, Director of the Legal Committee and a member of several learned societies.

Dumont was arrested by order of the Committee of Public Safety, as he hung a poster at the trial of General Custine, which should remind us of the principles of justice. After the fall of Robespierre Dumont was set free and excelled in the sequence by a series of writings, including ornithological contributions, in particular the band for Ornithology in the Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles FG Levrault.

Works (selection)

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  • Biographie universelle ou dictionnaire de tous les hommes qui se sont fait par leurs remarquer Écrits, leurs actions, leurs talents, leurs ou leurs vertus crimes. Volume 6, page 318 ( Google books)
  • Biography universal ancienne et moderne. Notes, Volume 63, pp. 136f. ( Google books)
  • Ornithologist
  • Lawyer ( France)
  • Administrative lawyer
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1758
  • Died in 1830
  • Man
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