Jaime Almera Comas
Jaime Almera Comas , also Jaume Almera i Comas (born May 5, 1845 in Vilassar de Mar , † February 15, 1919 in Barcelona ) was a Catalan geologist , paleontologist and theologian . He is the founder of the Museo Geológico del Seminario de Barcelona .
Life
Comas studied theology and science in Barcelona . In 1867 he received his bachelor's degree in arts and in 1869 he received his bachelor's degree in natural sciences and in 1871 his licentiate in natural sciences in Barcelona and in 1874 he received his doctorate from the University of Madrid . He also studied theology, was ordained in 1871 and became a canon in 1885 and a deacon in Barcelona Cathedral in 1912 . In addition, he was since 1871 professor of natural history and geology at the Seminari Conciliar de Barcelona.
He was a member of the French Geological Society (1878), the Royal Catalan Academy of Sciences and Arts (and its president in 1907/08) and the Academy of Sciences of Aragon. In 1874 he founded the Museum of Geology and Paleontology in Barcelona. In 1895 he became a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
He dealt with invertebrate paleontology and in 1891 published a geological map of the province of Barcelona on a scale of 1: 40,000 (a map on a scale of 1: 100,000 he published as early as 1887). At the geology congress in London he presented a catalog of Catalan fossil mollusks (600 species) and published a catalog of fossil tertiary mollusks from Catalonia with Arturo Bofill y Poch in 1892. At the geological congress in Zurich in 1894 he gave a lecture on graptolites from Catalonia.
A geological institute of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Barcelona was named after him in 1965 (Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera).
He was friends with the poet Jacinto Verdaguer .
In 1874 he translated Charles Adolphe Wurtz's chemistry textbook from French.
Fonts
- Cosmogonía y geología, 1878
Web links
- Biography of Salvador Vilaseca (PDF; 1.6 MB; Spanish)
- Spanish biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Comas, Jaime Almera |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Comas, Jaume Almera i |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish geologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vilassar de Mar |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1919 |
| Place of death | Barcelona |