Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville

French academic

Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1769

Place of Birth: Vesly, Normandy, France

Date of Death: 26-Jul-1853

Profession: naturalist, politician, archaeologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Charles-Alexis-Adrien Duhérissier de Gerville (Gerville-la-Forêt (Manche) 19 September 1769 — Valognes (Manche) 26 July 1853) was a scholarly French antiquarian, historian, naturalist and archaeologist from an aristocratic family of Normandy.
His earliest concerns were with natural history and botany and his numismatic collection, but he became one of the small group forming the first architectural historians in France.