Charles Brongniart
Charles Jules Edmée Brongniart (born February 11, 1859 in Paris , † April 18, 1899 there ) was a French pioneer of the study of fossil insects.
Brongniart studied at the Sorbonne with a bachelor's degree in literature in 1879 and in natural sciences in 1883, his licentiate in natural sciences in 1886 and his doctorate in 1894 (Recherches pour servir à l'histoire des insectes fossiles des temps primaires, précédées d'une étude sur la nervation des ailes des insectes). His dissertation on fossil insects received a prize from the Academie des Sciences. Brongniart was from 1880 to 1882 taxidermist for chemistry at the École de Médecine and from 1882 to 1883 at de École de Pharmacie and from 1886 at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle .
Brongniart studied fossil insects especially from the Upper Carboniferous of the Commentry coal mines .
In 1879 he became a member of the Leopoldina . He was president of the Société philomatique.
Adolphe Brongniart was his grandfather.
Fonts
- Les Hyménoptères fossiles, 1881
- Apercu sur les insectes fossiles en general: et observations sur quelques insectes des terrains houillers de Commentry (Allier) 1883 Archive
- Les Insectes fossiles des terrains primaires: coup d'oeil rapide sur la faune entomologique des terrains paleozoïques 1885 Archive
- Tableaux de zoologie (classification), Paris: Hermann 1886.
- with Henri Fayol (1841–1925): Études sur le terrain houiller de Commentry, Saint-Étienne, 1887–1888
- Histoire naturelle popular. L'homme et les animaux, Paris: Flammarion 1892
- Recherches pour servir à l'histoire des insectes fossiles des temps primaires; précédées d'une Etude sur la nervation des ailes des insectes, St. Etienne, 1893/94
- Guide du naturaliste voyageur, enseignement spécial pour les voyageurs. Insectes, myriapodes, arachnides, crustacés, Paris: Fils de E. Deyrolle, Paris, 1894
- with Eugène Louis Bouvier : Instructions pour la recherche des animaux articulés, Autun, 1896
Web links
- Information on Charles Brongniart in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
References and comments
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brongniart, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brongniart, Charles Jules Edmée |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French paleontologist and entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1899 |
| Place of death | Paris |