Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix

Sainte-Marthe, Charles de (1512-55) taught theology at Poitiers, and was imprisoned in Grenoble for Lutheranism. Subsequently he taught French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. He was protected by the duchesse d'Étampes and found favour at the court of Marguerite de Navarre, for whom he compiled the Tombeau de Marguerite de Valois reine de Navarre (1551). In his Poésie française (1540) he is a disciple of Marot in his choice of themes and genres, but distinguishes himself by his use of Neoplatonic elements and his restrained, sober lyricism.

[Christine Scollen-Jimack]

Charles Henri Frédéric Dumont de Sainte-Croix (April 27, 1758 – January 8, 1830) was a French zoologist. A lawyer by trade, he was also an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist.^[1] Between 1817 and 1818, he described a number of Javanese bird species discovered by Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour;^[1] he also contributed articles on ornithology to the Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, edited and published from 1816–1830 by F. G. Levrault.^[2]

Dumont de Sainte-Croix's daughter, Clémence married René-Primevère Lesson, a surgeon and noted French naturalist.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Stresemann, p. 117
2. ^ F. G. Levrault, ed (1816–1830). Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Paris: Levrault. http://books.google.com/books?id=xx8AAAAAQAAJ&pg=PT6&dq=%22Charles+henri+frederic+Dumont+de+Sainte-Croix%22+%22Dictionnaire+des+sciences+naturelles%22. 
3. ^ Stresemann, p. 138

• Stresemann, Erwin (1975). Ornithology from Aristotle to the Present. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674644859. 

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