Edmond Perrier
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Jean Octave Edmond Perrier (born May 9, 1844 in Tulle , † July 31, 1921 in Paris ) was a French zoologist and anatomist .
Life
Edmond Perrier came from an old family in Tulle. His father, Antoine Perrier, was the director of l'École supérieure de Tulle , his mother, Jeanne Perrier, a born Roche. His brother, Remy Perrier (born June 14, 1861 Tulle, † June 27, 1936 Chaunac) was like him a well-known zoologist. Edmond was educated first at the Collège de Tulle and later in Paris Lycée Bonaparte , now Condorcet. In 1864 he received a degree from the École polytechnique and the École normal supérieure .
However, he decided on the advice of Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) for the option of the École normal supérieure , where he a. a. took part in courses in zoology from Félix Joseph Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers (1821–1901). In 1866 he received a degree in mathematics and physics and left the École with an agrégation de sciences physiques et naturelles the following year. Edmond Perrier initially taught at a school in Agen for three years . In 1868 he received a position as a scientific assistant naturalist at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle of Lacaze-Duthiers and in 1869 became a doctoral candidate in the natural sciences. In 1872 he replaced his former teacher Professor Lacaze-Duthiers at the École normal supérieure.
In 1876 he held the chair for natural history for molluscs , worms and zoophytes (this term is no longer used in modern biology; it is now used for sponges , corals and sea anemones ). In 1879 he chaired the Société zoologique de France . From 1880 to 1885 he took part in various expeditions to study the benthic fauna on board the Travailleur and the Talisman . Edmond Perrier acquired an international reputation as a specialist in marine life.
On December 12, 1892 Edmond Perrier was elected member of the Académie des sciences in the anatomy and zoology sections, before he finally became its president in 1915. In 1898 he was made an honorary member of the Académie nationale de médecine . In 1901 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Between 1900 and 1919 he was also director of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. In 1903 he changed the section and took over the chairmanship of the comparative anatomy, which had become vacant after the death of Henri Filhols (1843-1902). He was also a member and president of the Société nationale de protection de la nature - a post he held until his death in 1921. The Perrier Bay on Anvers Island in Antarctica is named after him .
Fonts (selection)
- Les Colonies animales et la Formation des organismes (Paris, édité par G.Masson, 1881).
- Anatomie et physiologie animales (Paris, 1882).
- Les Principaux types des êtres vivants des cinq parties du monde (Paris, 1882).
- La Philosophy zoologique avant Darwin . Paris 1884 (biography about Lamarck , online )
- Les Explorations sous-marines (Paris, 1886).
- Notions de zoologie, enseignement secondaire spécial (1887).
- L'intelligence des animaux (Paris, 1887, 2 volumes).
- Le Transformisme (Paris, 1888).
- Éléments d'anatomie et de physiologie animales (Paris, 1888).
- Éléments de sciences physiques et naturelles avec leur application à l'agriculture et à l'hygiène (1891).
- Tachygénèse ou accélération embryogénique (1902, avec Charles Gravier, édité par G.Masson).
- La Femme dans la nature, dans les moeurs dans la légende, dans la société (1910, Paris, Maison d'Edition Bong et Cie)
- La vie dans les planètes (1911, Paris, Editions de la revue )
- Les robes de noces des animaux (1912, éditions Plon).
- La Terre avant l'Histoire. Les Origines de la Vie et de l'Homme ( L'Évolution de l'humanité , Paris, “La Renaissance du livre”, 1920).
- A travers le monde vivant (1921).
- Traité de zoologie , œuvre colossale commencée en 1885 et achevée par son frère Rémy.
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical etymology of marine organisms and their names
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 187.
- ^ Société nationale de protection de la nature ( Memento of July 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Perrier, Edmond |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Perrier, Jean Octave Edmond (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French zoologist and anatomist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1844 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grommet |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1921 |
| Place of death | Paris |