Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny

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Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny (born December 2, 1806 in Couëron in the Loire-Atlantique department , † February 14, 1876 in Paris ) was a French botanist and geologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Orb. "

Life

He was the brother of the naturalist Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny , went to school in La Rochelle and studied medicine in Paris. In 1834 he succeeded Louis Cordier (1777–1861) as assistant and taxidermist for geology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. In 1837 he became an auxiliary naturalist, but had to give up his post at the museum in 1864 for health reasons.

Like his brother, he dealt with the tertiary in the Paris basin and worked on the plants sent by his brother from South America at the Natural History Museum in Paris.

D'Orbigny was editor of the natural history encyclopedia Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle , which appeared in 16 volumes from 1841 to 1849 (a second edition appeared in 1861). Among other things, the geologist Élie de Beaumont contributed to it.

Memberships

When La Société Cuvierienne was founded in 1838 , he was one of the 140 founding members of the society.

literature

  • Société Cuvierienne: List of the Premiers Fondateurs de La Société Cuvierienne, Association universelle pour l'avancement de la Zoologie, de L'Anatomie comparée et de la Palaeontologie . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 1 , 1838, p. 189-192 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Michel Pacaud, Didier Merle: Alcide d'Orbigny, un précurseur dans l'étude de la faune Danien du bassin de Paris. In: Comptes Rendus Palevol. Vol. 1, No. 7, 2002, pp. 587-589, doi : 10.1016 / S1631-0683 (02) 00059-3 , PDF (1.6 MB; English).
  2. ^ Société Cuvierienne, p. 190.