Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune
Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune (born September 18, 1833 in Saint-Savin (Vienne) , † April 23, 1912 in Paris ) was a French zoologist and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Rochebr. "
His father had a natural history cabinet in Angoulême . De Rochebrune took an early interest in nature, his first publication was in the botanical field, on the flora in the Charente department (with Alexandre Sabatier 1861). He was a military doctor who also took part as a surgeon in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 , received his doctorate in medicine in Paris in 1874 and then went to Saint Louis in Senegal as head of the hospital there. From 1878 he was at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, initially in the anthropology department and from 1880 auxiliary naturalist and successor to Victor Bertin (1849-1880) in the mollusks, worms and zoophytes department , headed by Edmond Perrier . In 1911 he retired.
He described many species that were new in his view, but most of them were later classified as synonyms. He published a multi-volume work on the fauna of Senegal and is also known as a malacologist .
He was a corresponding member of the Linnaeus Society in Bordeaux.
Fonts
- Faune de la Sénégambie, several volumes, from 1883, Volume 1, Archives
literature
- Philippe Jaussaud, Édouard Brygoo: Du Jardin au Muséum en 516 biographies. Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris 2004
- Jacques Daget, Les Poissons dans l´oeuvre du Dr. AT de Rochebrune (1833-1912), Cybium, Volume 24, 2000, pp. 273-286 pdf
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1836 is often given, but according to Daget (see literature) and others this is wrong
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rochebrune, Alphonse Trémeau de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French malacologist, zoologist and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Savin (Vienne) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1912 |
| Place of death | Paris |