Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau

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Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau
Family grave with bust of Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau on the Cimetière Montparnasse in Paris

Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (born February 10, 1810 in Valleraugue , † January 12, 1892 ) was a French zoologist and anthropologist .

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Quatrefages de Bréau was born in Berthézène (municipality of Valleraugue in the Gard department ) as the son of a Protestant farmer. He studied medicine and natural sciences in Strasbourg , where he graduated as a doctor of medicine in 1832. Some time later he moved to Toulouse , where he practiced as a doctor. In Toulouse Quatrefages de Bréau became professor of zoology and founded the journal Journal de médicine et de chirurgie de Toulouse .

In 1839 he moved to Paris in order to better devote himself to his research. In 1842 Quatrefages de Bréau toured the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. In 1850 he received the professorship for natural history at the Lycée Napoléon . Five years later he became professor of anthropology and ethnography at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle .

In 1852 he was elected to the Académie des Sciences and on April 3, 1879 as a foreign member of the Royal Society . The Bavarian Academy of Sciences accepted him as a foreign member in 1864. Since 1891 he was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society . Quatrefages de Bréau published numerous scientific papers on the annelid worms . He later turned to anthropology. His work La Race prussienne on the "Prussian race" led to a polemical argument with Rudolf Virchow .

Fonts (selection)

  • Considérations sur les caractères zoologiques des rongeurs . 1840
  • De l'organization des animaux sans vertèbres des Côtes de la Manche . In: Annales des Sciences Naturelles . 1844
  • Research on the système nerveux, l'embryognie, les organes des sens, et la circulation des annélides . In: Annales des Sciences Naturelles . 1844-50
  • Sur les affinités et les analogies des lombrics et des sangsues . In: Annales des Sciences Naturelles .
  • Sur l'histoire naturelle des tarets . In: Annales des Sciences Naturelles . 1848-49
  • Physiology comparée, métamorphoses de l'homme et des animaux . 1862
  • Les Polynésiens et leurs migrations . 1866
  • Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce . 2 volumes, 1866
  • La Rochelle et ses environs . 1866
  • Report on the progress of anthropology . 1867
  • Charles Darwin et ses précurseurs français . 1870
  • La Race prussienne . 1871 ( digitized version )
  • Crania Ethnica . 2 volumes, with 100 plates, 1875–82, together with Dr. Hamy
  • L'Espèce humaine . 1877
  • Nouvelles études sur la distribution geographique des Négritos . 1882
  • Hommes fossiles et hommes sauvages . 1884
  • Histoire générale des races humaines . 2 volumes, 1886–89
  • Les Pygmées: Avec 31 fig. intercalées dans le texte; Les Pygmées des anciens d'après la science modern; negritos ou Pygmées asiatiques; Négrilles or Pygmées africains; Hottentots et Boschismans . 1887 ( digitized version )

further reading

  • D. Ferembach: Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau (1810-1892) . In: International Journal of Anthropology . Volume 4, No. 4, 1989, pp. 305-307, doi : 10.1007 / BF02444648

Web links

Commons : Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Breau; Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de (1810-1892) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
  2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ Member History: JL Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breau, Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Berthézène , Valleraugue commune, Gard department
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1892