Charles Lucien Bonaparte

Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte ( born May 24, 1803 in Paris, † July 29, 1857 ) was an Italian politician and ornithologist. He was the son of Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840) and the nephew of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte ( 1769-1821).

Life

Prince Charles Bonaparte grew up in Italy. After he had married his cousin, Princess Laetitia Julie Bonaparte Zénaïde on 29 June 1822 in Brussels, he moved to the United States. On the journey Bonaparte collected specimens of a hitherto unknown petrel ( Hydrobatidae ). Once in the U.S., he presented a paper on this new bird he named after Alexander Wilson: in English " Wilson's storm petrel - " to German Wilson's Storm Petrel ( Oceanites oceanicus ).

Then corrected and completed Bonaparte Wilson's American Ornithology and published this work from 1825 to 1833. In 1824, he tried to bring the previously unknown John James Audubon at the Academy of Natural Sciences, but the ornithologist George Ord rejected his application for admission.

Bonaparte returned with his family to Europe in 1826, where he settled in 1828 in Rome. In 1828 he accepted the membership at the University of Uppsala, 1843, the membership of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. From 1832 to 1841 he published a work on the fauna of Italy, Iconografia della Fauna Italica.

In 1840 he inherited after the death of his father the title of Principe de Canino e Musignano. Canino was the possession of his father in the present province of Viterbo in Italy and the castle Musignano his favorite residence in the vicinity of the village. He graduated in 1848 a radical party to the pro- Nationalist Movement, and in 1849 deputy of the province of Viterbo. In the same year he accepted the office of Vice-President of the Parliament. After the failure of the Italian uprising in July 1849, he went for his political membership in the pro - Nationalist Movement into exile.

1850 Bonaparte settled in Paris. After the death of his wife he married Donna Marie Said Testaferrata. From 1854 until his death he was director of the Jardin des Plantes, the Paris Botanical Gardens.

Progeny

Bonaparte married Laetitia Julie Bonaparte 1822 Zénaïde ( 1801-1854 ), daughter of Joseph Bonaparte ( 1768-1844 ). Together they had eight children:

  • Joseph Bonaparte (1824-1865), since 1857 the third Principe de Canino e Musignano
  • Lucien Bonaparte (1828-1895), Cardinal
  • Julie Bonaparte (1830-1900)
  • Charlotte Bonaparte (1832-1901)
  • Marie Bonaparte (1835-1890)
  • Auguste Bonaparte (1836-1900)
  • Charles Napoléon (1839-1899)
  • Bathilde Bonaparte (1840-1861)

He then married Donna Marie Said Testaferrata.

Works

  • Collected pamphlets. 1824-26.
  • Additions to the ornithology of the United States. Philadelphia 1825.
  • American ornithology or The natural history of birds inhabiting the United States. Mitchell, Philadelphia 1825-33.
  • Description of a new species of South American Fringilla. Philadelphia 1825.
  • Descriptions of ten species of South American birds. Philadelphia 1825.
  • Observations on the nomenclature of Wilson's ornithology. Finley, Philadelphia in 1826.
  • Sulla seconda del Regno edizione animale del Barone Cuvier. Marsigli, Bologna 1830.
  • Cenni sopra le variazioni a cui vanno soggette la del gruppo farfalle melitaea. 1831st
  • Di una nuova specie d' uccello dell'Isola di Cuba. Florence 1831st
  • Iconografia della Fauna Italica per le quattro Classi degli Animali Vertebrati. Salvineci & Filippo, Rome 1832-41.
  • Saggio d' una degli animali distribuzione metodica a sangue freddo vertebrati. Boulzaler, Rome 1832.
  • Notices and descriptions of new or interesting birds from Mexico and South America. London 1837.
  • A geographical and comparative list of the birds of Europe and North America. van Voorst, London 1838.
  • Amphibia europea ad nostrum systematic vertebratorum ordinata. Turin 1840.
  • A new systematic arrangement of vertebrated animals. Taylor, London 1841.
  • Catalogo degli metódico uccelli europei. Bologna 1842.
  • Osservazioni sullo stato della zoologia in Europe in quanto di vertebrati nell'anno 1840-1841. Florence in 1842.
  • Genus novum fringillinarum, bustamantia capilaurea. Bologna 1844.
  • Catalogo dei metódico mammiferi europei. Milan 1845.
  • Observations on the state of zoology in Europe, as regards the Vertebrata. London 1845.
  • Parere del presidente della sezione sig. principe Carlo Bonaparte e della commissione since lui nominata by lo esame dell'anzidetta memoria del prof. de Nanzio. Naples in 1845.
  • Catalogo dei pesci metódico Europei. Fibreno, Naples 1846.
  • Conspectus generum avium. (Volume 1) Brill, Leiden 1850 online
  • Monograph of loxiens. Arnz, Leiden 1850.
  • Notes sur les collections ornithologiques rapportées en 1853 par MA Delattre. Mallet- Bachelier, Paris, 1854.
  • Conspectus generum avium. ( Volume 2 ) Brill, Leiden 1857 online
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