Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux
Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux (born May 3, 1779 in Agen , † March 26, 1825 in Caen ) was a French naturalist and algologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " JVLamour ".
Life
His father, Claude Lamouroux, was a manufacturer and at times mayor of Agen, but was also interested in science and music. Lamouroux already dealt with botany and especially marine algae and hydrozoans in Agen . In 1805 he published about the brown algae genus Fucus . After his father in Agen went bankrupt, Lamouroux moved to Paris in 1807, where he was elected as a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences in 1817 . In 1808 he became assistant professor and in 1811 professor at the University of Caen . In Caen he was a co-founder of the local Linnaeus Society, in whose treatises he published, and became director of the Botanical Garden. His pupil Arcisse de Caumont (1801–1873), who is also known as an archaeologist, succeeded him as a professor in Caen. He was friends with Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent , with whom he worked and in whose Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle he published.
He was the first to divide algae into green algae, brown algae and red algae (1813), which was adopted by Dawson Turner and subsequently prevailed. He first described many taxa.
Lamouroux also looked at various groups of marine invertebrates and their classification (such as corals), geography, and paleontology (Normandy reptile fossils). His finds of Jurassic crocodiles in the vicinity of Caen were the cause of a controversy between Georges Cuvier and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire from 1825 to 1830 .
Fonts
- Dissertations sur plusieurs espèces de Fucus, Agen, Paris 1805, Gallica
- Histoire des Polypiers coralligènes flexible, vulgairement nommés Zoophytes, Caen 1816
- Exposition méthodique des genres de l'ordre des polypiers, Paris 1821
- Résumé d'un cours élémentaire de geographie physique 1821
literature
- Fernand Moreau: A propos d'un portrait du naturaliste J.-V.-F. Lamouroux, in: Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications, Volume 17, 1964, pp. 121-128, online
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Information on Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
References and comments
- ↑ Published in Lamouroux: Essai sur les genres de la famille des thalassiophytes non articulées, Annales du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle 20, 1813, 21–47, 115–139, 267–293, pls 7–13, also as a separate print by C . Dufour published in Paris (84 pages)
- ^ A. Brignon: Les premières découvertes de crocodiliens fossiles dans la Pierre de Caen (Bathonia, Normandy) au travers des archives de Georges Cuvier , Revue de Paléobiologie, Volume 33, 2014, pp. 379-418
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lamouroux, Jean Vincent Félix |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French botanist and zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1779 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Agen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 1825 |
| Place of death | Caen |