Gustave Adolphe Thuret

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Gustave Adolphe Thuret (born May 23, 1817 in Paris , † May 10, 1875 in Nice ) was a French botanist and algologist.

Thuret was the offspring of a Huguenot family who emigrated to the Netherlands . He first studied law and was also an enthusiastic musician. In 1837 he made friends with Alexander von Villers , who introduced him to botany. First he began to collect plants and got in touch with Joseph Decaisne , whose pupil he became. Decaisne also introduced him to the world of algae , which would become his lifelong field of research.

In 1840 he went to Constantinople as attaché to the French embassy, where he represented his country together with Edouard Pontois in the Ottoman Empire . His stay in the Middle East gave him the opportunity to study the flora of this area, making research trips to Syria and Egypt .

Just a year later he returned to France to study seaweed. He first lived at his Reutilly Castle near Lagny , then moved to Cherbourg with Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet in 1851 , where both of them mainly studied the algae of the Atlantic coast. During this time, the two researchers focused primarily on the sexuality of algae, to whose knowledge they made fundamental contributions.

In 1857 he founded a marine biological research station in Antibes and the Jardin botanique de la villa Thuret , which became the most famous garden architectural attraction on the Côte d'Azur . Numerous scholars from all over Europe did research in Antibes under his guidance, including Mikhail Stepanowitsch Voronin . The botanical garden was continued after Thuret's death by Charles Victor Naudin (1815-1899).

Thuret discovered the sexuality and fertilization of the brown algae family Fucaceae (1853) and (together with Bornet) the Florideen (1867), a subgroup of the red algae .

In 1857 Thuret was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences and in 1869 of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • Notes on 1ère anthere de Chara et les animalcules qu'elle renferme
  • (1843): Recherches sur les organs locomoeurs des spores des algues. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. Series 2, 19: 266-277.
  • (1845): Note sur les spores de quelques algues. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., Series 3, 3: 274-275.
  • (1851): Recherches sur les zoospores des Algues et les anthéridies des Cryptogames. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., Series 3, 14: 214-260.
  • (1855): Note sur un nouveau genre d'algues, de la famille des Floridées. Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg 3: 155-160.
  • (1875): Essai de classification des Nostochinées. Annales des sciences naturelles (Botanique) ser. 6, 1, 372-382.
  • (1878; with Édouard Bornet): Études phycologiques. Analyzes d'algues marines. 1878, 105 pages; 51 plates. Reprint 1966.
  • (1880): Xenococcus schousboei. In Notes Algologiques, pp. 73-75. Edited by E. Bornet & G. Thuret. Paris: G. Masson.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of former members since 1666: Letter T. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 7, 2020 (French).
  2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Gustave Adolphe Thuret. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on June 23, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Thuret, Gustave Adolphe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French botanist and algologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1875
Place of death Nice