== Leben ==Bernards Vater achtete sehr auf die Ausbildung seines Sohnes, und das Studieren von "Buffon's Histoire Naturelle" weckte schon früh Bernards Interesse an Naturgeschichte, der er sich dann hauptsächlich widmete. ###>His education was carefully conducted by his father, and the early perusal of Buffon's Natural History ("Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière") awakened his interest in that branch of study, which absorbed his chief attention.