François Cyrille Grand'Eury
François Cyrille Grand'Eury , called Cyrille, (born March 9, 1839 in Houdreville , Département Meurthe , † July 22, 1917 in Malzéville ) was a French paleobotanist , geologist and mining engineer. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Grand'Eury ".
Grand'Eury studied at the mining school (École des Mines) in Saint-Étienne until 1859 and then worked for the mining company Roche-la-Molière et Firminy. For health reasons he had to give it up and in 1863 became a mathematics tutor at his old mining school in Saint-Étienne, where he began a systematic study of the carbon flora in the area around St. Étienne and the coal basin of the Loire in general . He published on this as early as 1869 and his large monograph on it was published in 1877 by the Académie des sciences . In 1879 he received the Cross of the Legion of Honor at the Sorbonne . From 1882 to 1890 he investigated the fossil flora of the hard coal deposits in the Gard department in the same way . From 1883 to 1899 he was a professor at the École des Mines of St. Étienne. Most of the time he lived in St. Etienne, where he was an honorary professor at the mining school, and only a few years before his death did he move to Malzéville, a suburb of Nancy .
In addition to paleobotanical questions (for example on the Cordaitales ) in the narrower sense, he was also interested in the application of paleobotany in stratigraphy (in the case of the area around St. Étienne that of the Stefanium des Oberkarbon). In an essay in the Annales des Mines in 1882, in a lecture given to the International Geological Congress in 1901 and in the last major work of 1912 (written with his son Maurice, who died in the First World War in 1916), he dealt with the formation of coal, whereby he represented the allochthonous origin of coal.
In 1877 he became a member of the Société Géologique de France. In 1883 he received the Prix Bordin of the Académie des sciences and in 1885 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences in the field of botany. In 1903 he received the Prix Henri Schneider and the gold medal of the Société de l'industrie minérale.
Fonts
- Flore carbonifère du département de la Loire et du Center de la France, Impr. Nationale, Paris, 3 volumes, 1877, online
- Mémoire sur la formation de la houille, Annales des Mines, 8e série, Volume 1, 1882.
- Formation of the couches de houille et du terrain houiller, Société géologique de France 1887.
- Géologie et paleontologie du bassin houiller du Gard, Saint-Etienne: Théolier 1890, online
- Recherches géobotaniques sur les forêts et sols fossiles et sur la végétation et la flore houillères, several volumes, Paris: Ch. Béranger 1912–1914
literature
- Laurent Goulven: Cyrille Grand'Eury, paleontologie végétale, fixisme et transformisme, Bull. Histoire et Epistémologie des Sciences de la Vie, 4, (1), 1997, pp. 11-22.
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| SURNAME | Grand'Eury, François Cyrille |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French paleobotanist, geologist and mining engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Houdreville , Meurthe department |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 1917 |
| Place of death | Malzéville |