Henri Termier
Henri François Émile Termier (born December 13, 1897 in Lyon , † August 12, 1989 ) was a French paleontologist and geologist .
Life
Termier, who comes from a family of doctors and scientists, served as an artillery officer during World War I and received the Croix de guerre . He then studied in Grenoble , was an assistant at the University of Montpellier from 1923 to 1925 and then from 1925 in the geological survey of Morocco under Pierre Despujols, where he worked until 1940. He recorded a region of around 20,000 square kilometers in central Morocco and the Middle Atlas , which resulted in his 1936 dissertation and two geological maps on a scale of 1: 200,000. From 1940 to 1945 he was head of the geological service in Morocco. From 1945 he was professor at the University of Algiers and from 1955 at the Sorbonne , where he headed the Laboratory for General Geology.
Termier is best known for research into the geology and paleontology of Morocco, where his preferred area was the Tichka massif. In 1942 he found dinosaur fossils of Cetiosaurus mogrebiensis from the Bathonium in the Moroccan Atlas .
He was married from 1942 to the paleontologist Geneviève Termier (1917-2005, nee Delpey), with whom he had a son. Geneviève Termier did research for the CNRS and together they published numerous books.
The mineral henritermierite is named after him.
Termier was a gifted pianist.
Fonts
- with Geneviève Termier: paleontology marocaine. 5 volumes, Hermann, Paris from 1947
- Etudes géologiques sur le Maroc central et le Moyen Atlas septentrional. Notes et mémoires du Service des Mines et carte géologique Maroc, 33, 4 volumes 1936
- with G. Termier: Géologie et pétrogénèse. Service de la carte géologique de l'Algérie, Algiers 1953
- with Geneviève Termier: Traite de Geologie. 4 volumes, Masson, Paris 1952 to 1961
- with Geneviève Termier: L'évolution de la lithosphère. 3 volumes, Masson, Paris 1956 to 1961
- with Geneviève Termier: Initiation à la paleontologie. 2 volumes, Colin, Paris 1952
- with G. Termier: Évolution et biocinèse. The invertebrés dans l'histoire du monde vivant. Masson 1958
- with G. Termier: Évolution et paleogéographie. Albin Michel, Paris 1959
- with G. Termier: Paléontologie stratigraphique. 4 volumes, Masson, Paris 1959, 1960
- with G. Termier: Biologie et écologie des premiers fossiles. Masson, Paris 1968
- with G. Termier: Volcanisme et volcans. Monaco 1962
- with G. Termier: Les temps fossilifères. Volume I: Paléozoïque inférieur. Masson 1964
- with G. Termier: Formation des continents et progression de la vie. 2nd edition, Masson, 1967
- with G. Termier: Le Massif granito-dioritique du Tichka. Rabat 1971
- with G. Termier: Les Animaux prehistoriques. Presses Universitaires de France 1977
- with G. Termier: Histoire de la Terre. Presses Universitaires de France 1979
Web links
- French biography of Jacques Gandini
- Literature by and about Henri Termier in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Information on Henri Termier in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Termier, Henri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Termier, Henri François Émile (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 13, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1989 |