Eugène Louis Bouvier
Eugène Louis Bouvier (born April 9, 1856 in Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux , † January 14, 1944 in Maisons-Laffitte , Paris ) was a French naturalist , entomologist , malacologist and crustacologist .
Life
Bouvier's father was a watchmaker. Eugène Louis Bouvier attended the parish school of Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux from 1862 to 1872. From 1872 to 1875 he attended the teacher seminar of Lons-le-Saunier (École normal primaire de Lons-le-Saunier) , was an assistant teacher in Clairvaux and teacher in Versailles (from 1878) and in Villefranche-sur-Saône , where he In 1881 he became a high school professor.
Between 1882 and 1887 he was a scholarship holder at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle with Edmond Perrier and Alphonse Milne-Edwards . From 1883 he studied science at the Sorbonne . Under the influence of Perrier at the École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud, he became a supporter of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution . He obtained his doctorate in natural sciences in 1887 on Système nerveux, morphologie générale et classification des Gastéropodes prosobranches (published in print in 1887). In 1889 he became a professor at the École supérieure de Pharmacie after a competition. In 1887 he entered the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle , where he became professor of zoology (1894), where he was chairman of the entomological laboratory from 1896 until his retirement in 1931, succeeding Émile Blanchard . In 1931 he retired.
He began studying the comparative anatomy of molluscs and in his dissertation demonstrated the uniformity of the front gill snails (Prosobranchia) and thus refuted Hermann von Ihering (whose son Rodolpho von Ihering was later his student). He cemented his reputation as an excellent comparative anatomist by examining other groups of molluscs, such as velvet worms (1907) and whales (1889). He then turned to arthropods and worked with Milne-Edwards on the systematics and morphology of crustaceans and their phylogenesis. He paid particular attention to the development of their extremities as an application of the theory of evolution. His book on insect behavior, published in 1918, was also influential. In the 1930s he undertook a revision of the peacock moth system .
In 1905 he took part in a marine biological expedition of the Prince of Monaco in the Saragossa Sea, where he studied deep-sea fauna.
In his last work (Mémoires Acad. Sci. Paris 1942) he identified the Corystoideae as the oldest group of crabs .
In 1902 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences and in 1925 its president. He was a member from 1913 and from 1922 commander of the Legion of Honor .
From 1910 to 1940 he was a member of the Pasteur Institute (and from 1926 to 1940 in its council), where he attended a microbiology course in 1894 and taught entomology from 1906 to 1910. In 1894 he was President of the French Zoological Society and in 1897 of the French Entomological Society. In 1901 he received the Prix Petit-Dormoy of the Académie des Sciences. He is also the namesake for Mount Bouvier in Antarctica.
Fonts (selection)
- Recherches sur les affinités des Lithodes & des Lomis avec les Paguridés (1895)
- Nouvelles observations sur les glaucothoés (1905)
- Vie psychique des insectes (1918)
- Habitudes et Métamorphoses des insectes (1919)
- Le Communisme chez les insectes (1926)
- Monograph des lépidoptères saturnides (1934)
- Decapodes marcheurs de la faune de France (1940)
- Notice sur les travaux scientifiques de M. EL. Bouvier, professor at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle . Imp.typographique et lithographique Le Bigot Frères, 1901.
literature
- Hans G. Hansson: Eugène Louis Bouvier. Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names . Gothenburg University. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
- M. Caullery: Notice nécrologique sur Louis-Eugène Bouvier (1856-1944) , cr de l'Académie des Sciences, 17/01/1944.
- Les Amis du Grandvaux, notice biographique sur Louis Bouvier . 5 p. dac. (Archives Pasteur, Bio. 19).
- Louis Fage: Eugène-Louis Bouvier 1856-1944 , Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Series 11: Zoologie et Biologie Animale, Volume 6, Paris: Masson 1944, p. 1, Archives
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eugène Louis Bouvier (1856-1944) ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bouvier, Eugène Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French zoologist, entomologist and crustaceologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1944 |
| Place of death | Paris |