Sébastien Bottin was born on 17 December 1764 in Grimonviller, Meurthe, France.

[3] Bottin was also the co-founder of the Société libre des Sciences et Arts de Strasbourg in 1799.

[2] He became a member of the Société des Antiquaires de France on 28 February 1818.

[3] He was awarded and honored by a prize in statistics from the Académie des Sciences in 1824, and received the honorary medal from the Société française de statistique universelle in 1833.

[4] The Rue Sébastien Bottin in the 7th arrondissement of Paris was named in his honor in 1929.