Jacques Roger

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Jacques Roger (* 1920 ; † March 26, 1990 ) was a French historian of science in biology and paleontology.

Life

Roger studied classical literature (Agrége 1943). From 1951 to 1953 he did research for the CNRS and then taught at the University of Poitiers. In 1964 he became a professor at the University of Tours , where he was Doyen de la Faculté des lettres from 1965 to 1969, and in 1970 professor of the history of science at the Sorbonne . From 1982 he was director of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales , from 1978 director of the Center international de synthèse and from 1983 to 1989 director of the Center Alexandre Koyré.

He dealt particularly with the history of science in biology in the 18th century and especially since the 1950s Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon , whose biographer he was. In 1962 he published a critical edition of Buffon's Epoques de la Nature (Paris: Éd. Du Museum 1962, new edition 1988).

He was editor of the journal Revue de synthèse and served on the editorial board of History of Science , Journal of History of Biology and other journals. From 1985 he was co-editor of the Revue d´histoire des sciences next to René Taton and from 1989 next to Jean Dhombres . In 1967 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • Panorama du XVII e siècle français, Paris: Seghers 1962
  • Les sciences de la vie dans la pensée française du XVIII e siècle. La génération des animaux de Descartes à l'Encyclopdéie, Paris, Armand Colin, 1963, new edition 1971, 1993 (his Thèse de Doctorat from 1963) - awarded a Grand Prix Gobert in 1964
  • Presentation du Discours sur les sciences et les arts de J.-J. Rousseau, Paris, Garnier-Flammarion, 1971.
  • Un autre Buffon, Paris, Hermann, 1977 (preface Jean-Louis Binet, selection from Buffon's work with commentary)
  • Buffon: un philosophe au Jardin du Roi, Paris, Fayard, 1989
  • Pour une histoire des sciences à part entière, Paris, Albin Michel, 1995
  • Réflexions sur l´histoire de la biologie (XVII e -XVIII e siècle) : problemèmes de méthodes, Revue d´histoire des sciences, Volume 17, 1964, No. 1, pp. 25-40

literature

  • Cédric Grimoult: Jacques Roger et la méthode historique, Histoire de l'histoire des sciences. Historiographie de l'évolutionnisme dans le monde francophone, Paris-Genève, Droz, 2003, pp. 89-101.
  • Jean-Jacques Fisher, Rosalyne Rey: Jacques Roger, historien des sciences (1920-1990), Revue d'histoire des sciences, Volume 44, 1991, 469-478, online

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References and comments

  1. ↑ A year earlier he was teaching French literature there
  2. ↑ Together with E. Genet-Varcin, he compiled a bibliography by Buffon for the Philosophical Works of Buffon edited by Jean Piveteau (Pari: PUF 1954)
personal data
SURNAME Roger, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH 1920
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1990