Brongniart, Alexandre, a French chemist and zoologist, collaborateur with Cuvier, born at Paris; director of the porcelain works at Sèvres; revived painting on glass; introduced a new classification of reptiles; author of treatises on mineralogy and the ceramic arts (1770-1847).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Brongniart, Adolphe * Bronte