Henri Filhol

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Henri Filhol

Pierre Antoine Henri Filhol (born May 13, 1843 in Toulouse , † April 28, 1902 in Paris ) was a French paleontologist , speleologist and zoologist.

Life

He was the son of Édouard Filhol (1814-1883), who was a chemist, mayor of Toulouse, founder of the Natural History Museum in Toulouse and professor and director of the medical school in Toulouse. Filhol studied medicine and zoology in Paris (with doctorates in both medicine and natural sciences) and in 1879 became professor of zoology in Toulouse. From 1894 to 1902 he held the chair for comparative anatomy at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris.

Like his father, with whom he initially worked in it, he explored the caves of the Pyrenees. In 1874 he took part in an expedition to Campbell Island led by Bouquet de la Grye to observe the transit of Venus . He also visited New Zealand , Stewart Island , New Caledonia , the Fiji Islands and returned via America. In 1883 he took part in a marine biological expedition on the Talisman , which also included Alphonse Milne-Edwards , Léon Vaillant , Edmond Perrier and other scientists and which took him to Portugal, Africa, the Azores, the Canary Islands and the Cape Verde Islands.

In Quercy he excavated numerous tertiary mammals from phosphorite layers in caves and crevices ( Dacrytherium , Prodemotherium , Quercytherium , Hyaenodon , Cynodictis , Adapis , Necrolemur ), but also snakes and amphibians. He was also one of the first to explore the caves in the Ariège department .

In 1897 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences . He was an officer in the Legion of Honor .

Filhol collection in the Natural History Museum of Toulouse

  • Adapis parisiensis

  • Hyaenodon filholi

  • Wolfhound jewelry, Magdalenian

  • Reindeer antler pendant, Magdalenian

Fonts

  • La vie au fond des mers, les explorations sous-marines et les voyages du "Travailleur" et du "Talisman", Paris: G. Masson, collection Bibliothèque de la nature 1885
  • Age de la pierre polie dans les cavernes des Pyrénées ariégeoises, Paris: J.-B. Baillière et fils 1866

literature

  • Obituary in La Nature: revue des sciences et de leurs applications aux arts et à l'industrie , Volume 30, 1902, pp. 367-381

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: De la sensibilité récurrente dans la main, 1873
personal data
SURNAME Filhol, Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Filhol, Pierre Antoine Henri (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French paleontologist, speleologist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1902
Place of death Paris