Jean-Baptiste Vérany
Jean-Baptiste Vérany (born February 28, 1800 in Nice , † March 1, 1865 ibid) was a French zoologist and malacologist who was particularly concerned with cephalopods of the Mediterranean.
Vérany was a full-time pharmacist in Nice.
In 1846 he founded the Natural History Museum in Nice with the botanist Jean-Baptiste Barla (1817-1896) and Antoine Risso , and his collections and library formed the basis of the museum. His 1851 book on cephalopods of the Mediterranean contained the first illustration (and publication of such an observation) of a glowing deep-sea cephalopod. Of his first descriptions of cephalopods, 11 are still valid. Besides about cephalopods, he also published about mollusks (gastropods). With Filippo De Filippi he first described fish species (such as Polyacanthonotus rissoanus ).
Vérany also had an important collection of birds.
The squid Chiroteuthis veranyi and a boulevard in Nice were named in his honor .
Fonts
- Zoologie des Alpes-Maritimes ou catalog des animaux observes dans le département, Nice 1862
- Céphalopodes de la Méditerranée: Mollusques méditerranéens observés, décrits, figurés et chromo lithographiés d'après nature sur modèles vivants, part 1, Genoa 1851 (only the first part appeared)
literature
- Gaston Fredj, Michel Meinardi: L 'ange & l'orchidée: Risso, Vérany & Barla: une lignée de savants de reputée mondiale à Nice au XIXe siècle, Fédération des Associations du Comté de Nice, Ed. Serre 2007
- Annales du Musée d'histoire naturelle de Nice, Volume 16, 2001 (dedicated to Vérany)
Individual evidence
- ^ Newton Harvey, A history of luminescence from the earliest times until 1900, Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 1957, p. 245, with illustration
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vérany, Jean-Baptiste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French zoologist and malacologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nice |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1865 |
| Place of death | Nice |