Auguste Pomel
Auguste Nicolas Pomel (born September 20, 1821 in Issoire , Puy-de-Dôme department , † 1898 in Dra-el-Mizan , Algeria ) was a French geologist , paleontologist and politician, as well as botanist. Its botanical author's abbreviation is " Pomel ".
Live and act
Auguste Pomel worked for many years as an engineer in Algerian mines and developed into a specialist in North African fossils. He was director of the service géologique de l'Algérie and professor of geology at the École supérieure des sciences in Algiers . In 1862 he took part in the colonization campaign to Ouargla . Pomel was Senator from Oran and in 1877 as a diplomat in Tunisia. Auguste Pomel is the first to describe the rhinoceros Acerotherium lemanense Pomel , 1853, which is today assigned to Diaceratherium lemanense ( Pomel , 1853), as well as the real salamander Chelotriton paradoxus Pomel , 1853.
On December 23, 1898 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences .
Honors
The plant genera Pomelia Durando ex Pomel from the umbelliferae family (Apiaceae) and Pomelina (Maire) Güemes & Raynaud from the rockrose family (Cistaceae) are named after him.
Fonts
- Catalog méthodologique et descriptifdes vertébrés fossils découverts dans le bassin hydro-graphique supérieur de la Loire, et surtout dans la valléede son affluent principal, l'Allier . Baillière, Paris 1853 ( digitized version )
- Sur les Alcyonaires fossils Miocenes de l'Algerie (1868)
- Des races indigènes de l'Algérie et du rôle que leur reservent leurs aptitudes (1871)
Individual evidence
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter P. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 5, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
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SURNAME | Pomel, Auguste |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pomel, Auguste Nicolas (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French geologist and paleontologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1821 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Issoire , France |
DATE OF DEATH | 1898 |
Place of death | Dra-el-Mizan |