Frédéric-Louis Koby

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Frédéric-Louis Koby (born October 2, 1852 in Delsberg , † April 6, 1930 in Pruntrut ) was a Swiss paleontologist and geologist.

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Koby attended the Collège in Delémont and was an accountant in a law office before studying natural sciences at the ETH Zurich from 1872 with the aim of becoming a teacher. In 1875 he became a teacher at a canton school and in 1890 rector of the canton school in Pruntrut and director of its botanical garden. In 1922 he retired.

He dealt with fossil corals from the Jura and the Chalk of Switzerland. In addition to Switzerland, he also collected in Russia, France and Portugal. He also worked as a cave explorer ( Grotte de Milandre ) and was concerned with the question of whether coal was available in the vicinity of Cornol (as some suspected based on plant fossils in the Keuper) and in general in the Swiss Jura. Several holes were also drilled for this purpose.

From 1890 to 1892 he was president of the Société jurassienne d'émulation. He was an honorary member of the Bern Natural Research Society and an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel (1888). He was a member of the Moscow Society of Natural Scientists , the Academy of Sciences in Lisbon and the Natural Research Societies in Basel and Bern.

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  • Monograph des Polypiers jurassiques de la Suisse, Mémoires Soc. Pal. Suisse, Volume VII-XVI, 1880 to 1889, Supplement 1894
  • Etude stratigraphique des couches rauraciennes supérieures du Jura bernois. Mémoires de la Société paleontologique suisse, Volume 19, 1892, pp. 374-413
  • Monograph des Polypiers crétacés de la Suisse, Mémoires de la Société paleontologique suisse, Volumes 22, 23, 24, 1895–1897

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personal data
SURNAME Koby, Frédéric-Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Delémont
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1930
Place of death Pruntrut