Édouard Louis Gourdan de Fromentel
Édouard Louis Gourdan de Fromentel (born August 29, 1824 in Champlitte , † April 6, 1901 in Bouhans-et-Feurg ) was a French doctor and paleontologist .
Fromentel studied medicine in Strasbourg, where he was a taxidermist in physics and chemistry at the medical faculty, and his clinical training at the Val-de-Grâce military hospital in Paris. In 1849 he received his doctorate in medicine (Essai sur le suc nourricier et ses modifications pathologiques) and settled in Gray (Haute-Saône) . In 1856 he married. As a doctor he was also responsible for combating epidemics (typhus) and worked as a prison doctor and he was active in local politics.
In addition to his medical profession, he dealt with paleontology, especially with Mesozoic corals and sponges, and was one of the founders of the French committee for paleontology and, after the death of Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny, one of the editors of the series Paléontologie Française , published since 1840 , for which he wrote some partial volumes (chalk, volume 8, zoophytes (corals) 1862, Jura, volume 12, zoophytes (corals)). He also studied microbiology.
He was a Knight of the Legion of Honor and the Mérite Agricole.
Fonts
- Introduction à l'étude des éponges fossiles, Caen 1859
- Monograph des Polypiers jurassiques supérieurs, Paris 1862
- Polypiers coralliens des environs de Gray, considérés dans leurs rapports avec ceux des bassins coralliens de la France, Caen 1864
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Biodiversity Library
- ↑ Etudes sur les microzoaires, ou infusoires proprement dits 1874
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fromentel, Édouard Louis Gourdan de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French medic and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Champlitte |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1901 |
| Place of death | Bouhans-et-Feurg |