Henri Douvillé
Joseph Henri Ferdinand Douvillé (born June 16, 1846 in Toulouse , † January 19, 1937 ) was a French geologist, malacologist and paleontologist.
Douville studied from 1863 at the École polytechnique and the École des Mines , was a mining engineer in the Corps des Mines (1872 in Limoges and 1874 in Bourges) and from 1876 lecturer (Professeur suppléante) and from 1881 to 1911 professor of paleontology at the École des Mines. For more than 40 years (from 1870) he was responsible for the paleontological collection of the École des Mines and in this context processed worldwide collections of palaeontologists and geologists (from Egypt, Asia Minor, the Mediterranean, Central America, Madagascar, Iran, Syria, Ethiopia, Tibet among others). From 1871 to 1883 he was also involved in the creation of the geological map of France.
He was considered an expert on ammonites and rudists. In 1912 he named the mussel order Actinodontoida .
In 1881 he became President of the French Geological Society and in 1912 received their Gaudry Medal. In 1907 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences . In 1905 he became an officer of the Legion of Honor. In 1898 he received the Prix Fontannes. Since 1929 he was an honorary member of the then Soviet Academy of Sciences .
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- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Joseph-Henri-Ferdinand Douville. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 29, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Douvillé, Henri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Douvillé, Joseph Henri Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French geologist, malacologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toulouse |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1937 |