Charles René Zeiller

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Charles René Zeiller , also just René Zeiller , (born January 14, 1847 in Nancy , † November 27, 1915 in Paris ) was a French engineer and paleobotanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Zeiller ".

Life

Zeiller studied from 1865 at the École polytechnique and from 1867 to 1870 at the Ecole des Mines . From 1878 he held lectures on paleobotany as the Chargé de conférences there (from 1887 as the Chargé du cours) and from 1881 was responsible for the paleobotanical collection. He mainly worked as a state engineer, first on the railway line to Orleans from 1871 to 1874 and then as a mining engineer in Paris. From 1882 he was responsible for mapping the underground hard coal deposits in France and in 1884 he became chief engineer.

He was president of the Conseil Général des Mines.

In 1899 and 1904 he was President of the French Botanical Society and in 1893 of the French Geological Society. From 1901 he was a member of the Académie des Sciences and from 1913 honorary member ( Honorary Fellow ) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

The genera of fossil plants Zeilleria Kidst. , Zeillerisporites D.D.Pant & BPSrivast. and Zeilleropteris Koidz. are named in his honor.

In 1910 Paul Fliche named the Triassic plant Annalepis zeilleri after him , which Julius Schuster transferred in 1932 within the Cycadaceae to the genus Lepacyclotes established by Ebenezer Emmons in 1856 and currently valid by Gregory Retallack in 1997 as Lepacyclotes zeilleri (FLICHE 1910) of the order established by Carl Prantl in 1874 Isoetales is assigned.

Fonts

  • Notes sur les plantes fossiles de la Ternera (Chili), Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 1875
  • Note sur quelques collections de plantes fossiles du terrain carbonifère supérieur, in Guide du géologue à l'Exposition universelle de 1878, and Congrès international de géologie tenu à Paris en 1878
  • Végétaux fossiles du terrain houiller de la France, 1880.
  • Notes sur la flore bouillère des Asturies, 1882
  • Sur la presence, dans le gres bigarre des Vosges, de l'Acrostichides rhombifolius, Fontaine. In: Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, Ser. III, T. XVI, 1888, pp. 693-699
  • with Bernhard Renault: Flore fossile, 1888–1889
  • Bassin houiller et permien d'Autun et d'Epinac. 2, Flore fossil, 1890
  • Basin houiller et permien de Brive. 2, Études sur la flore fossile des dépôts houillers et permiens des environs de Brive, 1892
  • Étude sur la constitution de l'appareil fructificateur des Sphenophyllum, 1893.
  • Sur l'âge des dépôts houillers de Commentry, Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 1894
  • Eléments de paleobotanique, 1900.
  • Flore fossil des gîtes de charbon du Tonkin, 1902
  • Revue des travaux de paleontologie végétale publiés dans le cours des années 1897-1900, 1903
  • Etude sur la flore fossile du bassin houiller et permien de Blanzy et du Creusot, 1906
  • La paleobotanique, 1915

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 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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personal data
SURNAME Zeiller, Charles René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeiller, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French engineer and paleobotanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Nancy
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1915
Place of death Paris