Bernard Renault

Bernard Renault (born March 4, 1836 in Autun , † October 16, 1904 ) was a French paleobotanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Renault ".

Renault received his doctorate in physical sciences at the Sorbonne in 1867 and then taught chemistry at the college in Cluny . There he dealt with silicified fossilized plants from the area around his hometown Autun from the Permian and Carboniferous and his publications about them attracted the attention of Adolphe Brongniart , who brought him to the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris in 1872 as a taxidermist , where he became assistant curator in 1876 has been. In 1879 he received his doctorate a second time at the Sorbonne, this time in natural history. He was also involved in the geological map of France project from 1884.

In 1882 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor and he was a member of many scientific societies, including the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences and the Society for Natural History in Autun, which he co-founded and of which he was first president. Charles René Zeiller named the genus of fossil plants Renaultia after him.

Fonts

• Recherches sur les végétaux silicifiés d'Autun, 1876
• Végétaux silicifiés d'Autun et de Saint-Etienne. Nouvelles research on the structure of the "Sphenophyllum" and on our affinités botaniques
• Structure comparée de quelques tiges de la flore carboniféres, 1879
• Cours de botanique fossile fait au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 4 volumes, 1881 to 1886
• with Charles René Zeiller: Flore fossile, 2 volumes, 1888, 1889
• Sur quelques microorganismes des combustibles fossiles, 1900

literature

• A. Roche: Biography of Bernard Renault avaic extrait des ses notices scientifiques, Memoire de la Sociéte Hist. Naturelle d'Autun 1905