Jacques Draparnaud

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Jacques Draparnaud
Cylinders obtusus , illustration in Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France .

Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud (born June 3, 1772 in Montpellier , † February 2, 1804 ibid) was a French naturalist , malacologist and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Drap. ".

Live and act

Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud was from 1794 to 1804 professor of physics and chemistry at the Collège de Sorèze , of grammar in the Hérault department and of medicine at the University of Montpellier . In Montpellier he was also the director of the botanical garden. His main work is the Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France about molluscs , which appeared shortly after his death and which later earned him the title "Father of French Malacology ".

Xavier Montrouzier named the animal genus Draparnaudia from the class of snails in his honor .

Fonts (selection)

  • Observations on the Gioenia . In: La Décade Philosophique, Littéraire et Politique . Volume 24, No. 15, pp. 321-322, Paris 1799
  • Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France . Montpellier 1801 ( Archives )
  • Discours sur les avantages de l'histoire naturelle et Discours sur les moeurs et la manière de vivre des plantes . Montpellier 1801
  • Histoire naturelle des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France . Montpellier, Paris 1805; ( Archives )

literature

  • Jean-Jacques Amigo, “Draparnaud (Jacques, Philippe, Raymond)”, in: Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises , vol. 3: Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre , Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. ( ISBN 9782908866506 )
  • Biography universal; ou, Dictionnaire historique ... Volume 2, 1838, p. 410

proof

  1. ^ Jean-Jacques Amigo, “Draparnaud (Jacques, Philippe, Raymond)”, in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. ( ISBN 9782908866506 )

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personal data
SURNAME Draparnaud, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Draparnaud, Jacques Philippe Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French naturalist, malacologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Montpellier
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1804
Place of death Montpellier