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{{Short description|French biologist (1822–1895)}}
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| death_place = [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]]
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| fields = {{Unbulleted list|[[Biology]]|[[Herpetology]]|[[Ichthyology]]}}
| workplaces = [[Smithsonian Institution]]
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| awards = [[Cuvier Prize]]
| author_abbrev_zoo = '''Girard'''
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'''Charles Frédéric Girard''' ({{IPA-fr|ʃaʁl fʁedeʁik ʒiʁaʁ}}; 8 March 1822 – 29 January 1895) was a
== Biography ==
In 1854, he was naturalized as a
When the [[American Civil War]] broke out, he joined the [[Confederate States of America|Confederates]] as an agent for surgical and medical supplies. After the war, he remained in France and started a medical career. During the [[Franco-Prussian War]] he served as a military physician and published an important paper on the [[typhoid fever]] after the [[Siege of Paris (
He retired in 1891, and spent the rest of his life in [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], where he died
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==Eponymy==
Girard is commemorated in the names of the following taxa:<ref name="Goode1891">{{cite journal|first=George Brown|last= Goode|title=The published writings of Dr. Charles Girard|journal=Bulletin of the United States National Museum|number=41|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x7dMXTu8f38C|year=1891}}</ref>
*''[[Girardinus]]'' [[Felipe Poey y Aloy|Poey]], 1854
*''[[Girardinichthys]]'' [[Pieter Bleeker|Bleeker]], 1860
*''[[Cambarus|Cambarus girardianus]]'' [[Walter Faxon|Faxon]], 1884
*''[[Masticophis taeniatus|Masticophis taeniatus girardi]]'' ([[Leonhard Stejneger|Stejneger]] & [[Thomas Barbour|Barbour]], 1917)<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Girard, C.F.", p. 101).</ref>
*''[[Microcyphus girardi]]'' [[Pierre Jean Édouard Desor|Desor]]
*''[[Synapta girardi]]'' [[Louis François de Pourtalès|Pourtalès]]
*''[[Vortex girardi]]'' O. Schmidt, 1857
==See also==
*[[:Category:Taxa named by Charles Frédéric Girard|Taxa named by Charles Frédéric Girard]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
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*{{Internet Archive author |sname=Charles Frédéric Girard}}
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