Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (born December 16, 1805 in Paris , † November 10, 1861 ibid) was a French zoologist and ethologist .

Life

Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was the only son of the zoologist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire . He showed a talent for mathematics early on , but later turned to natural history and medicine . In 1824 he became an assistant at his father's chair. From 1832 to 1837 he published his large teratological work Histoire générale et particulière des anomalies de l'organization chez l'homme et les animaux .

After receiving his medical doctorate in 1829 ( Propositions sur la monstruosité ) Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire took over for his father the second part of a series of lectures dealing with ornithology dealt, and in the following three years he taught zoology at the Paris Athénée and Teratology at the École pratique des hautes études . He was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris in 1833 . In 1837 he was subordinate to his father at the Faculty of Science at the University of Paris , but after a year he was sent to Bordeaux to head a similar faculty there.

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire became inspector of the Paris Académie des Sciences in 1840 , and the following year he was appointed professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, succeeding his father . In 1844 he was appointed Inspector General of the University of Paris , and in 1845 appointed to the Royal Council for Education . In 1850 he was appointed professor of zoology at the Faculty of Science at Paris University.

Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire founded the Paris Société nationale d'acclimatation in 1854 and became its first chairman. In 1855 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1856 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

Fonts

• Memoir on an American bat. Phillips, London 1825.
• Considérations generales sur les monstres. Tastu, Paris 1826.
• On the females of pheasants, which assume the plumage of the male. Blackwood, Edinburgh 1827.
• Propositions sur la monstruosité. Didot le Jeune, Paris 1829.
• Principes de philosophie zoologique. Pichon & Didier, Paris 1830.
• Etudes Zoologiques. Lequien, Paris 1832.
• Histoire générale et particulìere des anomalies de l'organization chez l'homme et les animaux ou Traité de tératologie. Baillière, Haumann & Cattoir, Paris, Brussels 1832–37.
• Atlas contenant 20 planches avec leur explication et Table generale des matieres. Paris 1837.
• Notice on zoology. Delossy & Bouchard-Huzard, Paris 1838.
• Essais de zoologie générale ou Mémoires et notices sur la zoologie générale, l'anthropologie et l'histoire de la science. Roret,
  Paris 1841-44.
• Description of the collections de Victor Jacquemont. Didot, Paris 1842-45.
• Storia naturale dei mammiferi. Milan 1844.
• Vie, travaux et doctrine scientifique d'Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Bertrand, Paris 1847.
• Lakanal , sa vie, ses travaux à la Convention et au Conseil des Cinq-cents. Joubert, Paris 1849.
• Catalog méthodique de la collection des mamifères, de la collection des oiseaux et des collections annexes. Gide & Baudry, Paris 1851.
• Note on some bones and eggs found at Madagascar, in recent alluvia, belonging to a gigantic bird. London, 1851.
• Domestication et naturalization des animaux utiles. Dusacq, Paris 1854.
• Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques, principalement étudiée chez l'homme et les animaux. Masson, Paris 1854-62.
• Lettres sur les substances alimentaires et particulièrement sur la viande de cheval. Masson, Paris 1856.
• Discours prononcé sur le tombe de M. Duméril. Paris 1860.
• Acclimatation et domestication des animaux utiles. Maison rustique, Paris 1861.

literature

• Salf, EPL: Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861). in Acta belgica historiae medicinae. vol. 6, 1993.
• Comtesse Drohojowska, A.-J.-F.-A. (* 1822): Les savants modern et leurs oeuvres. Lefort, Lille, Paris 1884–88.
• Dumas, J.-B. (1800-1884): Éloge historique de Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Didots, Paris 1872.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 8, 2012.
2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 31, 2015 .