Guillaume Michel Jérôme Meiffren de Laugier, Baron of Chartrouse

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Guillaume Michel Jérôme Meiffren de Laugier, Baron of Chartrouse (1772–1843)

Guillaume Michel Jérôme Meiffren de Laugier, Baron of Chartrouse (born September 28, 1772 in Arles , † September 27, 1843 ibid) was a French politician and ornithologist .

Live and act

During the French Revolution he was part of the Légion des Allobroges . On June 13, 1811, he was appointed Baron of Chartrouse by Napoleon Bonaparte . In 1822 a commission was formed in Arles to promote the expansion of the amphitheater and the ancient theater . This expansion was only implemented under the management of Meiffren de Laugier . He became mayor of Arles in 1824, an office he held until the July Revolution of 1830 . From 1829 to 1834 he was a Member of Parliament and General Councilor for Arles. Other infrastructure programs such as the road from Salon-de-Provence to Nîmes and the deepening of the canal between Arles and Port-de-Bouc in order to clear the Rhone Valley on the left side were also implemented at his instigation. We owe the restoration of many old monuments to him. For example, in 1822 he played a key role in the discovery of the famous Vénus d'Arles , which is now in the Louvre in Paris. On May 19, 1825 he was awarded the title Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur .

On November 5, 1829, he took the place of the 3rd arrondissement of the Bouches-du-Rhône for the deceased Jean-Baptiste Florentin Gabriel Meyran de Lagoy (1764-1829). In the election he prevailed with 127 votes against Marie-Joseph de Gras de Preville (1755-1849), who got only 75 votes. On June 30, 1830, he was re-elected with 144 votes. This time he prevailed against the mayor of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Pierre Blain, who received 57 votes. On July 5, 1831, he won the election again. This time he got 96 against 82 votes for Jean Boulouvard (d. 1843).

Ornithology

Title page of Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux

When Coenraad Jacob Temminck visited Paris in January 1820, he paid a visit to Baron Meiffren de Laugier. Since Meiffren de Laugier had an important collection of exotic birds, he steered the conversation towards a project that had been on his mind for some time. Edme-Louis Daubenton (1730–1785) had produced 973 bird tablets for Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffons (1707–1788) Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi . Meiffren de Laugier wanted to complete this table, but he lacked the expertise to write the text for it. Temminck was immediately enthusiastic about the idea and so he hired his favorite illustrators Jean-Gabriel Prêtre (1768–1849) and Nicolas Huet II (1770–1830) to illustrate the birds he had put together with hand-colored plates. On September 1, 1820, the first delivery of the multi-volume work appeared under the names of both authors. Even if the volumes indicate the year 1838, 102 deliveries were made between 1820 and 1839. In a publication by Charles Davies Sherborn from 1898, he determined the exact publication dates of the individual deliveries. In 1922 Erwin Stresemann expanded this with findings from the Museum of Natural History in Berlin . Charles Payraudeau (1786–1865) published in 1826 some critical comments on the actual storks . In 1836 Meiffren de Laugier published a catalog with all the birds from his collection. Today parts of his collection are in the Natural History Museum at Tring , in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin.

Dedication names

In 1819, Louis Pierre Vieillot named the lark chicken ( Ortyxelos meiffrenii ) in honor of Meiffren de Laugier . Meiffren de Laugier had the type specimen for the first description in his extensive collection. Vieillot also published Trochilus lazulus from the baron's collection. Julian Pender Hume and Michael P. Walters called the hummingbird Laugier's Sabrewing and see it as a questionable taxon . However, many authors see this name as a synonym for the red-tailed sword wing ( Campylopterus falcatus ( Swainson , 1821)).

Works (selection)

  • Catalog des oiseaux de la collection de M. le baron Laugier de Chartreuse . Impremerie de D. Garcin, Arles 1836.
  • with Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, Nicolas Hüet: Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux: pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, Édition in-folio et in-4 ⁰ de l'Imprimerie royale, 1770 . tape 1 . FG Levrault, Legras Imbet et Comp., Strasbourg, Amsterdam 1838 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, Nicolas Hüet: Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux: pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, Édition in-folio et in-4 ⁰ de l'Imprimerie royale, 1770 . tape 2 . FG Levrault, Legras Imbet et Comp., Strasbourg, Amsterdam 1838 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, Nicolas Hüet: Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux: pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, Édition in-folio et in-4 ⁰ de l'Imprimerie royale, 1770 . tape 3 . FG Levrault, Legras Imbet et Comp., Strasbourg, Amsterdam 1838 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, Nicolas Hüet: Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux: pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, Édition in-folio et in-4 ⁰ de l'Imprimerie royale, 1770 . tape 4 . FG Levrault, Legras Imbet et Comp., Strasbourg, Amsterdam 1838 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Jean-Gabriel Prêtre, Nicolas Hüet: Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux: pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon, Édition in-folio et in-4 ⁰ de l'Imprimerie royale, 1770 . tape 5 . FG Levrault, Legras Imbet et Comp., Strasbourg, Amsterdam 1838 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

literature

  • Erwin Stresemann: The development of the ornithology Aristotle up to the present . Aula-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1996, ISBN 3-89104-588-3 .
  • Erwin Stresemann: Publication dates of Temminck and Laugiers Planches Coloriées. In: Anzeiger der Ornithologische Gesellschaft in Bayern . tape 7 , 1922, pp. 54-55 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Erwin Stresemann: Histoire des origines des 'Planches Coloriées' de Temminck et Laugier . In: L'oiseau et la revue Française d'ornithologie . tape 21 , 1951, ISSN  0030-1531 , p. 33-47 .
  • Julian Pender Hume, Michael Walters: Extinct Birds . T & AD Poyser, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., London 2012, ISBN 978-1-4081-5725-1 ( books.google.de ).
  • Benjamin Charles Marie Payraudeau: Notice sur les Cigognes, et particulièrement sur trois grandes espèces qui fournissent à la toiette des dames les plumes déliées dites Marabou . In: Annales des sciences naturelles: comprenant La physiologie animale et végétale, l'anatomie comparée des deux règnes, la zoologie, la botanique, la minéralogie et la geologie . tape 7 , 1826, pp. 91-96 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Louis Pierre Vieillot: Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc. Par une société de naturalistes et d'agriculteurs . tape 35 . Deterville, Paris 1819 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Louis Pierre Vieillot in Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre: Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature (=  ornithology . Volume 2 ). Chez Mme. Veuve Agasse, Paris 1823 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Charles Davies Sherborn: On the Dates of Temminck and Laugier's' Planches colorikes . In: The Ibis (=  7 ). tape 4 , no. 38 , 1898, p. 485-488 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Adolphe Robert, Edgar Bourloton, Gaston Cougny: Dictionnaire des parlementaires français comprenant tous les Membres des Assemblées françaises et tous les Ministres français depuis le 1st May 1789 jusqu'au 1st Maai 1889 avec leurs nom, état civil, étatiques de services parliamentaires, etc. Volume Fes - Lav. Bourloton, Paris 1891 ( gallica.bnf.fr ).
  • Frank Dieter Steinheimer: The whereabouts of pre-nineteenth century bird specimens . In: Zoologische Mededelingen . tape 79 , no. 3 , 2005, p. 45–67 ( repository.naturalis.nl [PDF; 162 kB ]).
  • Edward Clive Dickinson: Systematic notes on Asian birds. 9.1 The “Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées” of Temminck & Laugier (1820–1839) . In: Zoologische Verhandelingen . No. 335 , 2001, p. 7–53 ( repository.naturalis.nl [PDF; 2.5 MB ]).
  • Norinomiya Sayako, Edward Clive Dickinson: Systematic notes on Asian birds. 10.1 The “Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées” of Temminck & Laugier (1820–1839): the little known impression of 1850 . In: Zoologische Verhandelingen . No. 335 , 2001, p. 55–59 ( repository.naturalis.nl [PDF; 167 kB ]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amphithéâtre (arènes) at Arles patrimoine.
  2. ↑ a b Adolphe Robert u. a., p. 625.
  3. ↑ Guillaume, Michel, Jérôme Meiffren-Laugier de Chartrouse at Assemblée Nationale
  4. ↑ Erwin Stresemann (1996), p. 127.
  5. ^ Charles Davies Sherborn, p. 488.
  6. ↑ Erwin Stresemann (1922), pp. 54–55.
  7. ^ Charles Payraudeau, pp. 91-96.
  8. ^ Frank Dieter Steinheimer, p. 55.
  9. ↑ Frank Dieter Steinheimer, p. 52.
  10. ↑ Frank Dieter Steinheimer, p. 48.
  11. ↑ Louis Pierre Vieillot (1819), p. 50.
  12. ^ Louis Pierre Vieillot (1823), p. 557.
  13. ↑ Julian Pender Hume et al. a., p. 408.
personal data
SURNAME Meiffren de Laugier, Guillaume Michel Jérôme Baron of Chartrouse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ornithologist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Arles
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1843
Place of death Arles