André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac

Baron André Étienne Justin Pascal Joseph François d'Audebert de Férussac (born December 30, 1786 in Chartron ; † January 21, 1836 ) was a French naturalist who was best known for his research and categorization of molluscs .

Férussac was born in 1786 as the son of the naturalist Jean Baptiste Louis d'Audebert de Férussac (1745-1815) and Marie Catherine Josèphe de Rozet. As early as 1804 he published a work on crustaceans of his homeland in the treatises of the Academy of Sciences. From 1811 he was an officer in the Napoleonic army and took part in the battles of Jena and Austerstädt and Austerlitz and fought in Spain, where he was badly wounded during the siege of Saragossa. Because of his wounding, he said goodbye and in 1813 published a record of his experiences in Spain. After the fall of Napoleon he was back in the military, taught geography and statistics at the École d'application, and from 1819 was at the Ministry of War. From 1823 to 1831 he published the Bulletin général et universel des annonces et des nouvelles scientifiques , which ended up as a financial failure. He also wrote numerous scientific articles. After 1830 he was also a member of the Tarn-et-Garonne department. In 1823 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

His Tableau systématique des animaux mollusques appeared in 1822 and he continued the work of his father's Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles (4 volumes, 1820 to 1851). In 1822 he named the order Mytilida (as "Mytillacés").

literature

B. Bru et Th. Martin: Le Baron de Férussac: La Couleur de la Statistique et la Topologie des Sciences. Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 2005 PDF (1.1 MB)

Individual evidence

↑ Member entry of Baron Andréas Étienne Férussac d'Audebard at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 19, 2015.

↑ André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac: Tableaux systématiques des animaux mollusques classés en familles naturelles, dans lesquels on a établi la concordance de tous les systèmes; suivis d'un prodrome general pour tous les mollusques terrestres ou fluviatiles, vivants ou fossils. Arthus-Bertrand, Paris & JB Sowerby, London, 1822 Online at www.biodiversitylibrary.org (S. XVII)

personal data
SURNAME	Férussac, André Étienne d'Audebert de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Férussac, André Étienne Just Pascal Joseph François d'Audebard de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 30, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chartron
DATE OF DEATH	January 21, 1836

[Leopoldina-1] Member entry of Baron Andréas Étienne Férussac d'Audebard at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 19, 2015.

[Tableau-2] André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac: Tableaux systématiques des animaux mollusques classés en familles naturelles, dans lesquels on a établi la concordance de tous les systèmes; suivis d'un prodrome general pour tous les mollusques terrestres ou fluviatiles, vivants ou fossils. Arthus-Bertrand, Paris & JB Sowerby, London, 1822 Online at www.biodiversitylibrary.org (S. XVII)