Đào Văn Tiến

Đào Văn Tiến (born August 23, 1920 in Nam Định , French Indochina ; † May 3, 1995 in Hanoi , Socialist Republic of Vietnam ) was a Vietnamese vertebrate zoologist . His research focus was mammalogy .

Life

Đào was the son of a school teacher. During the Second World War , when Indochina was occupied by Japan , he became a student at the Université Indochinoise (now Vietnamese National University Hanoi ), where he received a Bachelor of Science in 1944 and a Master of Science in Zoology in 1946 . His mentor was Boris Noyer , head of the laboratory for biology and experimental medicine at the time . During their physiological and pharmacological research, frogs and the heart of turtles were also used for experiments. The French herpetologist and geologist René Léon Bourret , who researched the herpetofauna of Indochina for most of his career , supported Đào and Noyer.

While France tried to gain control of Vietnam after World War II, the first Indochina War broke out in December 1946 and Đào fought as a soldier in a guerrilla unit on the battlefield of Viet Bac against the French troops.

In 1951 he and other scientists founded an educational institute in his home province of Nam Định . In 1956, Đào returned to Hanoi, where he taught at the Vietnamese National University in Hanoi. In 1980 he was appointed professor and in 1987 he retired.

Đào devoted most of his research to mammals, about which he wrote 85 articles between 1960 and 1994. These include the first descriptions of 18 taxa of which still four, including the Hatinh langur ( Trachypithecus hatinhensis ), the subspecies Trachypithecus germaini caudal of Germain langurs , the subspecies Sundasciurus hippurus ornatus the ponytail croissant and the subspecies musk Berezovskii caobangis of Chinese musk deer , are valid. In 1985 he published the monograph Khảo sát thú ở miẽn băc Việt Nam ( Scientific Results of Mammal Survey's in North Vietnam) .

Occasionally, Đào also dealt with herpetology . Between 1965 and 1982 he published nine specialist articles on amphibians and reptiles, pioneering modern herpetological research in Vietnam. His most important herpetological work is a five-part checklist of the reptiles and amphibians of Vietnam, published between 1977 and 1982.

Awards and dedication names

In 1996, Đào was posthumously awarded the Ho Chi Minh Prize for Science and Technology. In 2006, Guy G. Musser , Darrin P. Lunde and Nguyễn Trường Sơn named the Daovantien karst rat ( Tonkinomys daovantieni ) in honor of Đào.

literature

• Kraig Adler: Contributions to the History of Herpetology . Volume 2. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 2007, ISBN 978-091698-471-7 , p. 247

Web links

• Literature by and about Đào Văn Tiến in the bibliographic database WorldCat