Jacques Berlioz (zoologist)

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Jacques Paul Antoine Berlioz (born December 9, 1891 in Paris in the 1st arrondissement ; † December 21, 1975 there ) was a French zoologist .

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Berlioz was the great-nephew of the French composer Hector Berlioz . Already in his childhood he was interested in collecting stones, plants, insects and birds. After studying medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry in 1917, he became an assistant in the Department of Birds and Mammals at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in 1920 . In 1927 he became assistant curator and in 1949 chief curator. He held this position until 1962. In addition, he received the title of professor in 1949. Berlioz was particularly fascinated by hummingbirds, about which he published several specialist articles. Berlioz had a deep friendship with the bird and insect collector Eugène Simon and when Simon died in 1924, he bequeathed his library and considerable collection of hummingbirds to the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. In 1950 Berlioz wrote important chapters on the taxonomy, distribution and migration of birds in the encyclopedia Traité de Zoologie . Berlioz (sometimes together with zoologists such as Jean Delacour or Guillaume Grandidier ) described several bird taxa, including the Malegasse moorhen , the widow's tangar , the edge warbler , the silver -throated tyrant , the yellow-eyed drongo-flycatcher and the brown -fronted newtonia . He was an officer in the Legion of Honor and an honorary member of the American Ornithologists 'Union , the British Ornithologists' Union , the German Ornithological Society , the Zoological Society of London and the Sociéte Ornitholoque de France.

In 1965 Sidney Dillon Ripley named the Socotra- Sailor ( Apus berliozi ) after Jacques Berlioz.

Works (selection)

  • La vie des oiseaux . 1931
  • Les migrations animales. Insectes, poissons, oiseaux, mammifères . 1942
  • La vie des colibris . 1944
  • Oiseaux de la Réunion . 1946
  • Petit atlas des oiseaux . 4 volumes, 1953

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personal data
SURNAME Berlioz, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berlioz, Jacques Paul Antoine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1975
Place of death Paris