Gustave Frédéric Dollfus

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Gustave Frédéric Dollfus (born November 26, 1850 in Paris , † November 6, 1931 there ) was a French paleontologist, geologist and malacologist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Dollfus ".

Life

Dollfus came from a well-known Alsatian family from Mühlhausen. His father was Frédéric Dollfus (1803-1856), his mother Noémie Martin (1820-1915). He was interested in natural history since childhood, as was his cousin Adrien Dollfus , the founder of the magazine La Feuille des jeunes naturalistes . After studying at the Sorbonne (1868 to 1870) with Edmond Hébert and from 1871 to 1873 in Lille with Jules Gosselet , he worked from 1879 for the French geological survey (Service de la carte géologique de la France), for which he worked around a dozen geological Maps 1: 80,000 created.

He was very interested in applications of geology, for example the connection between geology and hydrology in the Paris Basin or the possibility of a tunnel under the English Channel. He used the railway construction in France to study new developments. In 1869, a borehole detected halite on the Dollfus estate near Mühlhausen , the beginning of the discovery of potash deposits in Alsace.

Gustave Frédéric Dollfus became a member of the Paleontological Society in the founding year 1912

In 1896 and 1916 he was president of the Société de géologie de France . In 1923 he received the Lyell Medal .

He dealt with Tertiary in Normandy, the Paris Basin and Portugal and its mollusks. He wrote an important treatise on aquitanium and an extensive series of treatises on Miocene mollusks in the Loire Basin. In his book Principes de géologie transformiste he turned against Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny and his theories of catastrophe in the succession of Georges Cuvier . Dollfus was a Lamarckist .

He wrote for the Revue critique de Paléozoologie by Maurice Cossmann (1850-1924).

The parasitologist Robert-Philippe Dollfus (1887–1976) was his son. The sea snail Crysallida dollfusi and several other animal species are named in his honor.

Fonts

  • with Philippe Dautzenberg : Conchyliologie du Miocéne moyen du Bassin de la Loire, Mémoires de la Société géologique de France, 1902 to 1920
  • Principes de géologie transformiste, application de la théorie de l'évolution à la géologie, 1874
  • with Émile-F. Vieillard: Etude géologique sur les terrains crétacés et tertiaires du Cotentin, 1875
  • Essai sur l'extension des terrains tertiaires dans le bassin anglo-parisia, 1880
  • Esquisse des terrains tertiaires de la Normandie, 1880
  • Notice sur une nouvelle carte geologique des environs de Paris, Berlin 1885
  • Descriptions de coquilles nouvelles des faluns de la Touraine, 1888
  • Recherches géologiques sur les environs de Vichy (Allier), 1894
  • Essai d´une histoire geologiques de la Seine et de la Loire, in: Livre jubilaire publié al´occasion du Centenaire de la Societé geologique, 1930
  • Les relations entre le structure geologique du Bassin de Paris et son hydrographie, Annales de Geographie 1900
  • L'eau en Beauce, Bulletin des Services de la Carte, No. 107, Volume 16, 1904/05
  • Recherches sur les ondolations des couches tertiaires dans le Bassin de Paris, Bulletin des Services de la Carte, No. 14, Volume 2, 1890/91
  • Mollusques tertiaires du Portugal, 1909
  • Essai sur l'étage Aquitaine 1909

He created geological maps of Paris and the surrounding area 1: 40,000, of Paris 1: 320,000 and geological maps 1: 80,000 of Paris, Melun, Fontainebleau, Rouen, Meaux, Chateaudun, Évreux, Chartres, Beaugency.

literature

  • Jean-Jacques Amigo, “Dollfus (Gustave, Frédéric)”, in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. ( ISBN 9782908866506 )

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Jean-Jacques Amigo, “Dollfus (Gustave, Frédéric)”, in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. ( ISBN 9782908866506 )
  2. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
personal data
SURNAME Dollfus, Gustave Frédéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French paleontologist, geologist and malacologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1931
Place of death Paris