Editing Felipe Poey

{{Short description|Cuban zoologist}}
{{More citations needed|date=December 2009}}
{{Infobox person
|image = PSM V25 D446 Felipe Poey.jpg
|signature = Felipe Poey signature.jpg
| birth_name =  Felipe Poey
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1799|05|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Havana]], [[Captaincy General of Cuba|Cuba]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1891|01|28|1799|05|27|df=yes}}
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'''Felipe Poey'''  (May 26, 1799 – January 28, 1891) was a Cuban [[zoologist]].

==Biography==
Poey was born in [[Havana]], the son of French and Spanish parents. He spent several years (1804 to 1807) of his life in [[Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pau]] then studied law in [[Madrid]]. He became a [[lawyer]] in [[Spain]] but was forced to leave due to his [[freethought|liberal ideas]], returning to Cuba in 1823. He began to concentrate on the study of the [[natural science]] and traveled to France in 1825 with his wife. He began writing on the [[butterflies]] of Cuba and acquiring knowledge on [[fish]], later supplying [[Georges Cuvier]] and [[Achille Valenciennes|Valenciennes]] with fish specimens from Cuba. He took part in the foundation, in 1832, of the [[Société Entomologique de France]].

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]] at the [[University of Havana]]. 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)
*''Curso de zoología, profesado en la Real Universidad de la Habana'' (Havana, 1843)
*''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 Cubensium'' (1875–1876)

==Philately==
Cuba commemorated the 175th anniversary of Poey's birth by issuing a series of six stamps and a stamp sheet in 1974. This same country celebrated the 200th anniversary of his birth by the issue of a series of four illustrated fish stamps in 1999.

==Notes==
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==See also==
*[[:Category:Taxa named by Felipe Poey]]

==References==
*{{Cite Appletons'|wstitle=Poey, Felipe|year=1900}}

==External links==
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*{{Cite PSM|wstitle=Sketch of Professor Felipe Poey|author=David S. Jordan|author-link=David Starr Jordan|month-and-year=August 1884|volume=25}}

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