Gaston de Saporta

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Portrait of Saporta
Reconstruction of the Aix-en-Provence lakeside from Saporta in 1881

Marquis de Louis Charles Joseph Gaston Saporta (born July 28, 1823 in Saint-Zacharie , † January 26, 1895 in Aix-en-Provence ) was a French paleobotanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Saporta ".

Life

Saporta studied at the Jesuit College in Freiburg with Philippe Matheron (1807–1899). As a student of Adolphe Brongniart, he published on numerous tertiary florals from the Franco-Belgian region and supplemented those of the then leading paleobotanists Oswald Heer and Constantin von Ettingshausen with his work .

De Saporta was instrumental in supporting Darwin's theory of evolution in the field of paleobotany.

He wrote several important works such as Plantes jurassiques (1883–1885) and Origine paleontologique des abres cultivés ou utilisés par l'homme (1888). His work Le monde des plantes avant l'apparition de l'homme was translated into German by Carl Vogt (1881).

Regional focal points of de Saporta's investigations were the flora of Aix-en-Provence, Manosque , Sézanne and Gelinden . The Paleocene flora of Gelinden plays an important role in his considerations on the formation of the tertiary polar vegetation.

In 1876 de Saporta became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences . In 1885 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works

  • Le Monde des Plantes Avant l'Apparition de l'Homme. viii, 416 pp. - Paris, 1879
  • The flora before the appearance of man. translated by Carl Vogt: XVI, 397 S. - Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1881
  • A propos des algues fossiles. 82 pp. - Paris: Masson, 1882
  • Les organismesproblemématiques des anciennes mers. 102 pp. - Paris: Masson, 1884
  • Conifères ou Aciculaires Paris. Plantes jurasique (de la France). Paléontologie française; Ser. 2 Végétaux - Paris, 1884
  • Le Nelumbium provinciale des lignites crétacés de Fuveau en Provence Paris. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France. Paléontologie 5, 1890
  • Flore fossile du Portugal: Nouvelles contributions à la flore mésozoïque. Accomp. d'une notice stratigraphique par Paul Choffat. 288 pp. - Lisbonne: Impr. De l'Acad. R. de Sciences, 1894
  • G. de Saporta, AF Marion: Essai sur l'état de la végétation à l'époque des marnes heersiennes de Gelinden. Mémoire couronné de l'Académie royale de Belgique 37: 1-94, Bruxelles, 1873
  • G. de Saporta, AF Marion: Révision de la flore heersienne de Gelinden. Mémoire couronné de l'Académie royale de Belgique 41: 1–112, Bruxelles, 1877
  • G. de Saporta, AF Marion: The cryptogams. (The paleontological evolution of the vegetable kingdom). 250 pp. - Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1883

literature

  • ACS: The Marquis of Saporta. Geological Magazine, new series, decade 4, volume 2: 286–287 - London, 1895

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter S. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 25, 2020 (French).
  2. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1850–1899 ( PDF ). Retrieved September 24, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Saporta, Gaston de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saporta, Louis Charles Joseph Gaston Marquis de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French paleobotanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Zacharie
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1895
Place of death Aix-en-Provence