Albert de Lapparent

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Albert de Lapparent

Albert de Lapparent , also Albert-Auguste Cochon de Lapparent , (born December 30, 1839 in Bourges , † May 4, 1908 in Paris ) was a French geologist and mineralogist .

Life

De Lapparent went to the Lycée Bonaparte in Paris, studied from 1858 at the École polytechnique and was then from 1860 a student of Élie de Beaumont at the École des Mines . In 1862/63 he visited Germany and Austria and in 1864 he graduated from the École des Mines with top marks. Then he was in the Corps des Mines until he became a professor at the newly founded Catholic University ( Institut Catholique de Paris ) in Paris from 1880 .

During his time with the Corps des Mines he was involved in the creation of the geological map of France and from 1874 to 1876 in a study on the feasibility of the Channel Tunnel to England. He was later known for textbooks on geology, mineralogy and physical geography.

He introduced the stages of the Eocene Lutetian and Priabonian (with Albert Munier-Chalmas ). The first scientific description of monzonite comes from him . From 1865 he edited the annual Revue des progrès de géologie with Achille Delesse .

In 1879 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina ; In 1897 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences .

His son Jacques de Lapparent (1883–1948) was a geology professor in Strasbourg and at the Sorbonne and his grandchildren were also geologists: Albert-Félix de Lapparent (1905–1975) was professor at the Institut Catholique and Claude de Lapparent (1920–1985) a well-known petroleum geologist.

Fonts

  • Traité de Géologie, 1882, 2nd edition 1885, 2nd edition, Gallica
  • La Géologie en chemin de fer, 1888
  • Cours de Minéralogie, 1884
  • Précis de minéralogie, Paris, F. Savy, 1889
  • La question du charbon de terre, Paris, F. Savy, 1890
  • Leçons de Géographie physique 1896
  • Le Globe terrestre, 3 volumes 1899

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personal data
SURNAME Lapparent, Albert de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lapparent, Albert-Auguste Cochon de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French geologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Bourges
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1908
Place of death Paris