Georgette Legée

Georgette Legée , née Belleuvre , (born October 18, 1914 in Asnières-sur-Seine , † March 22, 1993 in Paris ) was a French science historian of biology, medicine and geology.

Life

Legée went to school in Blois. Her father Théophile Belleuvre was a pioneer in military aviation. In 1938 she was successful in the national competition for admission to studies in natural sciences for women, earned her diploma in physiology and was a teacher (professor) for natural sciences at the Lyzeum Jean-de-la-Fontaine in Paris. From the mid-1960s onwards she dealt with the history of science, particularly biology. In 1984 she received her doctorate with an extensive dissertation on the physiologist Pierre Flourens at the University of Paris IV ( Sorbonne ) (thèse de doctorat).

From 1969 to 1988 she was the editor of the journal Histoire et Nature , which finally had to cease publication for financial reasons. She was a member of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences.

In geology and paleontology she published, among other things, on the time concept of Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck , the history of paleobotany and coal geology in the 18th century, Leopold von Buch and the volcanoes of Auvergne and Victor Raulin .

In 1938 she married Pierre Legée, with whom she had three children.

Fonts

Pierre Flourens, physiologiste et historien des sciences. 2 volumes, Abbeville: Paulart 1992.

literature

Jean Théoridèes: Georgette Legée (1914–1993). In: Historie des sciences médicales. Tome XXVIII (1994), No. 3, pp. 195-197 ( online ; PDF; 1.51 MB).

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References and comments

↑ Volume 30, 1993, contains their bibliography.

personal data
SURNAME	Legée, georgette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Belleuvre, Georgette (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French science historian
DATE OF BIRTH	October 18, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Asnières-sur-Seine
DATE OF DEATH	March 22, 1993
Place of death	Paris

[1] Volume 30, 1993, contains their bibliography.