François Liénard de la Mivoye
François Liénard de la Mivoye (born July 29, 1782 in Visakhapatnam , † November 6, 1862 in Paris ) was a French-Mauritian naturalist , ichthyologist , zoologist and navigator .
Life
Except for the expeditions , for example the expedition to Frégate (Mauritius) , which he undertook as a naturalist, he stayed in Mauritius throughout his life. On August 19, 1807, he married Marie Françoise Chapon in what is now the capital Mauritius, Port Louis , with whom he had two children: Élizé Liénard (September 2, 1808, Port Louis) and Jules Victor Liénard (April 10, 1811, Port Louis).
On August 11, 1829, he founded the Société d'histoire naturelle locale with Charles Telfair , Wenceslas Bojer , Jacques Delisse and Julien Desjardins , which in 1841 became the Société royale des arts et des sciences de l'île Maurice . François Liénard became one of 30 members and treasurer of this learned society . The organization regularly sent fish specimens to support the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in his work on Histoire naturelle des poissons (Natural History of Fish). Georges Cuvier described these fish in his 22-volume work, which was completed after his death by Achille Valenciennes and published between 1829 and 1848. The Société royale des arts et des sciences de l'île Maurice was recognized by Queen Victoria after his death and received the addition royale .
In his later life Liénard discovered previously unknown animal species, for example the cone snail Conus lienardi , which still bears his name in the specific epithet , or the last sighting of the now extinct day gecko species Phelsuma gigas , which he saw in 1842 on the island of Frégate , one of the many, small, offshore islands of Rodrigues , discovered and wrote the first description . Although had François Leguat this day gecko species already in 1708 on Rodrigues saw and described the scientific naming of Linnaeus' Systema Naturae but was common until the 1758th Between 1841 and 1845 Liénard published three articles on his research.
In the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden , a botanical garden in Mauritius , the Liénard Obelisk made of white marble, erected in 1860, is a reminder of the research work and the life of François Liénard de la Mivoye.
Memberships
In 1839 Liénard de la Mivoye was introduced by Julien Desjardins as member number 167 of the Société cuviérienne .
literature
- Société Cuvierienne: Nouveaux membres admis dans la Société curvienne . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 2 , 1839, p. 224 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
Web links
- Liénard de la Mivoye, François (1782–1862) in: L'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales: S'écrire au XIX e siècle. Une correspondance familiale (accessed April 3, 2011)
- Liénard de la Mivoye, François (1782–1862) in: GeneaNet (accessed April 5, 2011)
- Liénard de la Mivoye, François (1782–1862) in: Association Maurice Archives
Individual evidence
- ^ Société cuviérienne, p. 64.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Liénard de la Mivoye, François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Liénard de Lamivoye, François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Franco-Mauritian naturalist, ichthyologist, zoologist and navigator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1782 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Visakhapatnam |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1862 |
| Place of death | Paris |