Fernand Meunier

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Fernand Anatole Meunier (also Ferdinand Anatole Meunier , born April 23, 1868 in Brussels , † February 13, 1926 in Bonn ) was a Belgian entomologist and paleontologist .

Life

Fernand Meunier worked as an assistant at the Geological Service of Belgium and later as curator of the Zoological Museum of Antwerp.

He described numerous new insect species from the Baltic amber and from the fossil deposit known today as the Rott fossil deposit, which chronostratigraphically is currently assigned to the Late Oligocene ( Chattian ). In 1894 he evaluated the Krantz collection in Bonn. As the first to describe it, he named the ichneumon wasp Polysphincta statzi ( Meunier , 1923) after the fossil collector and later Cologne teacher and entomologist Georg Statz and after the fossil collector Heinrich Bauckhorn from Siegburg, who collected for years in Rott and was the royal manager at the Royal Bullet Factory Wilhelmstrasse was active, the ant Formica bauckhorni Meunier , 1915, the long-legged fly Hercostomus bauckhorni ( Meunier , 1915) and the termite Ulmeriella bauckhorni Meunier , 1920.

The Austrian entomologist and palaeontologist Anton Handlirsch was very critical and hostile to some of his early writings and showed his view of Meunier's 1889 working method in detail and openly. He warned the publishers and editors of scientific journals against the inclusion of Meunier's writings.

At the end of 1918, Fernand Meunier had to leave Belgium because of his Germanophilia and moved to Bonn.

He was a member of the Société scientifique de Bruxelles and since 1890 a member of the Société entomologique de France .

Georg Statz named the caddis fly Phryganea meunieri Statz , 1936, in his honor in 1936.

In Germany, originals of the fossil insects described by Fernand Meunier can be found in the originals collection of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials in Berlin.

His collection of recent insects with 13 boxes of Hymenoptera and 91 boxes of Diptera went from his widow's estate in 1932/33 to the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia in Bonn and in 1936 to the Zoological Institute of the University of Bonn. The insect collection was destroyed in the bombing of Bonn in 1945.

Fonts (selection)

  • Observations on quelques insectes fossiles du Musée de Munich . In: Bulletin de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles, 22, 1898, pp. 1-2
  • Nuevas contribuciones a la fauna de los Himenópteros fósiles . In: Memorias de la Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes, 4 (34), Barcelona 1903, pp. 4-12
  • Monograph of the Cecidomyidae, the Sciaridae, the Mycetophilidae et des Chironomidae de l'ambre de la Baltique . Bruxelles 1904 ( digitized version )
  • Un Odonatoptere du Rhetien (Lias inferieur) de Fort-Mouchard, pres des Arcures (Jura) . In: Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 1907 pp. 521–523 ( digitized version )
  • Sur quelques diptères (Muscinae, Ortalinae, Helomyzinae) du copal Récent de Zanzibar . In: Annales de la Société scientifique de Bruxelles, 32, 1908, pp. 252-256 ( digitized version )
  • Un Coniopterygidae du copal de récent de Madagascar [Nevr.] . In: Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France. 1910, pp. 164–166 ( digitized version )
  • Nouvelles recherches sur quelques insectes du terrain houiller de Commentry (Allier) (deuxième partie) . Paris 1912 ( digitized version )
  • Nouvelles recherches sur quelques insectes du Sannoisien d'Aix-en-Provence . In: Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 4, 14, 1914, pp. 187-198
  • About some fossil insects from the brown coal strata (Aquitaine) of Rott (Siebengebirge) . In: Journal of the German Geological Society, 67, 1915, pp. 205–217 ( digitized version )
  • Sur quelques insectes de l'Aquitainien de Rott, Sept Montagnes (Prusse rhénane) . Negotiations of the Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam, Tweede Sect. 20, 1917, pp. 3-17
  • Sur quelques insectes de l'Aquitanien de Rott (Sept-Monts, Rhénanie) . In: Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Academie van Wetenschappen, 2, 20, Amsterdam 1917, pp. 82–87
  • About some mycetophilids and tipulids of amber with a description of the genus Palaeotanypeza (Tanypezinae) of the same formation . In: New Yearbook for Mineralogy, Geognosy, Geology and Petrefactology, Stuttgart 1917, pp. 73-106 ( digitized version )
  • New articles about the fossil insects from the brown coal of Rott (Aquitaine) in the Siebengebirge (Rhine Prussia) . In: Yearbook of the Prussian Geological State Institute, 39, 1919, pp. 141–153
  • Quelques insectes de l'Aquitanien de Rott, Sept-Monts (Prusse rhénane). In: Verslagen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam 22, Amsterdam 1920, pp. 727–737 and 891–898
  • The insect remains from the Lutetia of Messel near Darmstadt . In: Treatises of the Hessian Geological State Institute in Darmstadt, 7, 3, Darmstadt 1921
  • Sur quelques nouveaux insectes des lignites oligocènes (Aquitaine) de Rott, Siebengebirge (Rhénanie) . Proc. Sect. Sci. K. Akad. Wet. Amst. 26, 1923, pp. 605–612 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Anonymous: [Meunier, FA] Entomological News, Philadelphia 37, 1926, p. 312 ( digitized version )
  • Michael S. Engel: Ferdinand Anatole Meunier and the destruction of his Hymenoptera collections . In: Entomologist's Gazette, 58, 2007, pp. 183-184
  • Anton Handlirsch: Fernand Meunier's hymenopterological essays. In: Il Naturalista siciliano, Palermo 1889, pp. 63–66 ( digitized version )
  • Wighart von Königswald (Ed.): Rott fossil deposit near Hennef on the Siebengebirge. Life on a subtropical lake 25 million years ago . 2nd expanded edition. Rheinlandia-Verlag, Siegburg 1996, ISBN 3-931509-12-5 .
  • Wolfhart Langer: Portraits of Researchers. From the beginning to the middle of the 20th century . In: Wighart von Königswald (ed.): Rott fossil deposit near Hennef on the Siebengebirge. Life on a subtropical lake 25 million years ago . 2nd expanded edition. Rheinlandia-Verlag, Siegburg 1996, pp. 99-104
  • Alain Pauly: Meunier, Fernand (23 avril 1868 - 13 février 1926) . In: Bibliography des Hyménoptères de Belgique précédée de notices biographiques (1827–2000) Première partie. Notes fauniques de Gembloux, 44, 2001, pp. 55–56 ( digitized version )

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References and comments

  1. ↑ He had Venusbergweg 34 registered in Bonn as the member address for the Société entomologique de France.
  2. ^ Scientific originals in the BGR / LBEG collections, Hanover and BGR, Berlin. Font directory. As of January 28, 2015, p. 66 ( PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Meunier, Fernand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meunier, Fernand Anatole (full name); Meunier, Ferdinand Anatole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1926
Place of death Bonn