Basile Joseph Luyet

Basile Joseph Luyet MSFS (born July 10, 1897 in Savièse , Wallis , † 1974 ) was a Swiss religious priest , folklorist and pioneer of modern cryobiology .

Life

Luyet entered the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Francis de Sales , for whom he was ordained a priest in 1921 . He then continued his studies for eight years at the University of Genoa , completing them with two doctorates, one in biology and the other in physics . In 1929 he received a scholarship from Yale University and therefore emigrated to the United States. He dedicated his life to cryobiology. He was also the first president of the Cryobiology Society, which he co-founded . At the request of the Jesuits taught at their St. Louis University for biology and later for biophysics . Luyet also received a research fellowship from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York , where he met the surgeon and Nobel Prize winner Alexis Carrel (1873-1944). From 1933 he published the journal Biodynamica . In 1940 he and a sister published the widely acclaimed book Life and Death at Low Temperatures .

Works

• Dictons de Savièse , 1926
• Cahiers valaisans de folklore , 1928
• Devinettes de Savièse , 1928
• La médecine populaire à Savièse , 1928
• Un "bâton à marques" à Savièse in 1821 , 1928
• Contes de Savièse , 1929
• Bouts rimés de Savièse , 1929
• L'art culinaire à Savièse , 1929
• Cantiques populaires de Savièse , 1930
• Le coutumier annuel de Savièse , 1930
• Les marques domestiques à Savièse en 1887 , 1930
• Jeux de Savièse , 1931
• together with Marie Pierre Gehenio: Life and death at low temperatures , 1940

literature

• P. Schmidt: Basile J. Luyet and the Beginnings of Transfusion Cryobiology. In: Transfusion Medicine Reviews . Volume 20, Issue 3, pp. 242-246.

Web links

• Biography on planetesacha.com ( Memento from April 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive )