François Péron
François Auguste Péron (born August 22, 1775 in Cérilly , Département Allier , † December 14, 1810 ibid) was a French naturalist and zoologist. Its official biological author abbreviation is “ Pér. ".
Life
His widowed mother made many sacrifices to give him a solid education. He attended the Collège Cérilly and would later study theology in order to have a future, secure position as a priest. The Revolution and First Coalition War interrupted his intention to study. In 1792 he joined the army of the republic and served on the Rhine. He was wounded by Prussian troops near Kaiserslautern ( Hochspeyer im Pfalzwald), then a prisoner of war in the Magdeburg Fortress and was not repatriated until 1794 because of his injuries - he lost his right eye. While in custody, he read many travelogues and became interested in natural history.
He studied medicine in Paris on a scholarship because of his disability. He spent three years in medical school. Due to his limited health and an unhappy love, he gave up studying medicine and looked for a place in Nicolas Baudin's expedition to the South Seas . Péron accompanied Nicolas Baudin (1754–1803) in 1801 on his expedition to survey the Australian coast , the so-called Baudin expedition . Together with Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (1778-1846) he took over the scientific agendas of the expedition after the originally planned zoologist René Maugé de Cely fell ill on the crossing and died in Tasmania in 1802 . Together they documented over 100,000 zoological species, including 2,500 hitherto unknown, and thus contributed significantly to the study of Australian fauna and to the success of Baudin's expedition. Back in France he began his research together with Lesueur in Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes , in which he did not mention the leader of the expedition Nicolas Baudin. The first volume was published in 1807, but Péron died of tuberculosis in 1810 before the second volume could be published.
On October 14, 1805 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences (Department of Anatomy and Zoology). He also worked on the publication of Mémoire sur les éstablissements anglais à la Nouvelle Hollande .
Works
- Péron, F: Observations sur l'anthropologie (1800)
literature
- Edward Duyker : François Péron: An Impetuous Life: Naturalist and Voyager , Miegunyah / MUP, Melb., 2006, pp. 349, ISBN 0-522-85260-2
- FAPeron, L. Freycinet: Voyage de Descouvertes aux Terres Australes, execute par ordre de Sa Majeste l'Empereur et Roi, sur les corvettes Le Geographe, Le Naturaliste, et la goelette Le Casuarina, pendant les Annes 1800, 1802, 1803 et 1804 . 2 volumes, Paris in 1807 and 1816, and Atlas 1811. online at gallica.bnf.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/peron-francois-2545
- ↑ List of members since 1666: Letter P. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 1, 2020 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Péron, François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Péron, François Auguste (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French naturalist and zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cérilly , Allier department |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 1810 |
| Place of death | Cérilly , Allier department |