Alfred Moquin-Tandon
Christian Horace Bénédict Alfred Moquin-Tandon , pseudonym Alfred Frédol , (born May 7, 1804 in Montpellier , † April 15, 1863 in Paris ) was a French zoologist , botanist , natural historian , doctor and publicist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Moq. "; At times the abbreviation “ Moq. Trinkets. " in use.
Life
Moquin-Tandon began his professional career as a simple copyist and cashier in the trading house Moquin-Tandon & Cie. He later studied with the botanist Michel Félix Dunal (1789-1856) and obtained a doctorate in natural sciences on December 9, 1826, and a doctorate in medicine on August 18, 1828. First he taught zoology at the Gymnasium (Athénée) in Marseille from 1829 to 1830, from 1833 to 1838 he was professor of natural history at the Faculty of Sciences in Toulouse, and from 1838 to 1852 professor of botany. From 1834 to 1852 he was also director of the Botanical Garden in Toulouse . In 1850 the French government sent him to Corsica to study the island flora. In 1853 he moved to Paris, where he taught the natural history of medicine, later director of the Jardin des Plantes and from 1854 a full member of the Académie des Sciences . Alfred Moquin-Tandon was a founding member of the French Botanical Society in 1854 .
He was married to Joséphine Louise Moquin-Tandon, b. de Terson (1819-1890). The plant genus Tersonia Moq was named after his wife . from the family Gyrostemonaceae .
Moquin-Tandon's specialty was leeches and molluscs , several of which he first described.
Moquin-Tandon used various pseudonyms in his publications. The following anecdote has come down to us about his humor: In 1836 he published the work Carya magalonensis in Toulouse (reissued in 1844), giving it as a manuscript from the early 14th century. He used the Romance language in a special variant, then spoken around Toulouse, and published only 50 consecutively numbered copies of the work. He decorated this with a "facsimile" of the alleged original manuscript, lithographed, gilded and colored it by hand. The deception was so perfect that even Romance experts were misled.
Publications
(no claim to completeness)
- Mémoires sur l'oologie, ou sur les œufs des animaux (Paris, 1824).
- Essai sur les dédoublemens ou multiplications d'organes dans les végétaux (Montpellier, 1826).
- Monograph de la famille des Hirudinées (Gabon, Paris, 1827).
- L'Histoire naturelle des îles Canaries (Paris, 1836–1844), with Philip Barker Webb and Sabin Berthelot .
- Chenopodearum monographica enumeratio (P.-J. Loss, Paris, 1840).
- Moquin-Tandon directed the publication of the two-volume Las Flors del gay saber… (Toulouse, 1841).
- Éléments de tératologie végétale, ou Histoire abrégée des anomalies de l'organization dans les végétaux (P.-J. Loss, Paris, 1841); Translated into German by Johann Conrad Schauer under the title: Pflanzen-Teratologie, doctrine of the irregular growth and formation of plants (Haude and Spener, Berlin, 1842).
- Salsolaceae . in: De Candolle (ed.): Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 13 (2): pp. 41-219. Masson, Paris, 1849. ( scanned into BHL )
- Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de France, contenant des études générales sur leur anatomie et leur physiologie et la description particulière des genres, des espèces et des variétés (3 volumes, J.-B. Baillière, Paris, 1855).
- Éléments de zoologie médicale, contenant la description des animaux utiles à la médecine et des espèces nuisibles à l'homme (J.-B. Baillière, Paris, 1860, 2nd edition 1862).
- Éléments de botanique médicale, contenant la description des végétaux utiles à la médecine et des espèces nuisibles à l'homme (J.-B. Baillière, Paris, 1861, 2nd edition 1866).
- With the participation of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire , published under the pseudonym Alfred Frédol : Le Monde de la mer (E. Martinet, Paris, 1863, numerous other editions by L. Hachette, 1865, 1866 and 1881). Numerous illustrations by various artists, especially Lacerbauer and Riocreux.
- Un naturaliste à Paris 1834 notes sur mon séjour à Paris , new edition 1999 by Sciences en situation, series “Sens de l'histoire”, ISBN 2908965119 . (About a trip to Paris during which he met numerous contemporary natural scientists, whom he then strongly criticized in these memoirs).
Honors
The plant genera Moquinia DC. from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) as well as Moquiniella Balle from the belt flower family (Loranthaceae) are named after him. Also the plant genera Fredolia Coss. & Durieu ex Moq. & Coss. from the foxtail family (Amaranthaceae), Moquiniastrum (Cabrera) G.Sancho from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) and Tannodia Baill. from the family of milkweed plants (Euphorbiaceae) are named after him.
literature
- Staff message. In: Mohl , Schlechtendal (ed.): Botanische Zeitung , 21st year, Arthur Felix, Leipzig 1863, p. 176
Web links
- French page about Alfred Moquin-Tandon , numerous illustrations, especially from Le Monde de la mer
- Reproductions of A. Moquin-Tandon's letters to Philip Barker Webb, 1833-1851
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Alfred Moquin-Tandon at the IPNI
Single references
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter M. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 25, 2020 (French).
- ↑ a b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic 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 .
- ↑ Robert Zander : Zander hand dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moquin-Tandon, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moquin-Tandon, Christian Horace Bénédict Alfred; Frédol, Alfred (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French zoologist, botanist and natural historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montpellier |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 15, 1863 |
| Place of death | Paris |