Jos Massard

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Joseph Albert Massard (born December 3, 1944 in Tétange , Luxembourg ) is a Luxembourg biologist and historian of science and medicine.

Biographical note

Jos Massard worked from 1968 to 2006 as a biology teacher at the classical grammar school in Echternach (Lycée Classique d'Echternach). In addition, from 1995 to 2002 he was a lecturer at what was then the Center universitaire in Luxembourg (now the University of Luxembourg) (subject: history of science and medicine).

From 1976 to 2005, Jos Massard was a member of the city council of Echternach: from 1976 to 1981 as first alderman (in Luxembourg called 1st alderman) and from 1998 to 1999 as mayor.

Jos Massard is a research assistant at the Natural History Museum in Luxembourg (Musée national d'histoire naturelle de Luxembourg). He is a real member of the scientific and corresponding member of the historical section of the Grand Ducal Institute (Institut grand-ducal). He is the author or co-author of numerous scientific articles and books in the fields of zoology (in particular freshwater moss animals , bryozoa ), ecology, the history of Luxembourg's fauna and flora, and the history of science and medicine in Luxembourg.

The moss species Plumatella geimermassardi is named after him and his wife Gaby Geimer, who is also a moss specialist .

Publications (selection)

Books

  • JP Pier, JA Massard (Ed.): Gabriel Lippmann: Commémoration par la section des sciences naturelles, physiques et mathématiques de l'Institut grand-ducal de Luxembourg du 150e anniversaire du savant né au Luxembourg, lauréat du prix Nobel en 1908. Luxembourg 1997, 139 p. PDF
  • JM Mangen, G. Colling, JA Massard, E. Medernach: The orchids of Luxembourg. 2. rework. Ed. Musée national d'Histoire naturelle, Société des Naturalistes luxembourgeois, Luxembourg 1997, 143 pp. (1st edition 1993).
  • JA Massard (Eds.), B. Gales, G. Geimer, E. Homburg, A. Labisch, G. Vanpaemel (collaborators): L'Homme et la Terre. Mens en Aarde. Man and earth. Actes du 13e Congrès Benelux d'Histoire des Sciences, Echternach (Luxembourg), 1995. Luxembourg 1996, 280 pp.
  • JA Massard, G. Geimer: Initiation à l'écologie. Principes généraux de l'écologie et notions sur le milieu naturel luxembourgeois ainsi que sur lesproblemèmes de l'environnement au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. Ministère de l'Education nationale, Luxembourg 1993, 297 pp.
  • Livre du Centenaire de la Société des Naturalistes Luxembourgeois, 1890-1990. Bulletin de la Société des naturalistes luxembourgeois 91 (1990), 467 pp.
    • JA Massard: La Société des Naturalistes Luxembourgeois du point de vue historique , pp. 5–214. PDF
    • JA Massard, G. Geimer: Table générale des publications de la Société de Botanique du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (1874-1905) et de la Société des Naturalistes Luxembourgeois (1891-1989), avec index analytique des matières, p. 215– 455.
  • JA Massard: Echternach and cholera. A contribution to the history of medicine and public hygiene in Luxembourg. Publications du Center Universitaire de Luxembourg, Département des Sciences: Biologie-Chimie-Physique, fasc. 1 (1988), 259 pp. (Corrigenda) (PDF; 223 kB)
  • Geimer, G. & JA Massard, 1986. Les Bryozoaires du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg et des régions limitrophes. Travaux Scientifiques du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Luxembourg 7: 1-187. PDF Corrigenda. PDF
  • JA Massard, G. Geimer: Initiation à l'écologie. L'environnement au Luxembourg. Cours d'écologie. Classe de IIIe C . Ministère de l'Education nationale, Luxembourg 1983, 207 pp.

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Bryozoa

  • JA Massard, G. Geimer: Occurrence of Plumatella emarginata Allman, 1844 and P. casmiana Oka, 1908 (Bryozoa, Phylactolaemata) in Lake Pamvotis ( Ioannina , Greece). Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes luxembourgeois 109 (2008), pp. 133-138. PDF
  • JA Massard, G. Geimer: Global diversity of bryozoans (Bryozoa or Ectoprocta) in freshwater: an update. Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes luxembourgeois 109 (2008), pp. 139-148. PDF
  • JA Massard, G. Geimer: Global diversity of bryozoans (Bryozoa or Ectoprocta) in freshwater. In: EV Balian, C. Lévèque, H. Segers & K. Martens (eds): Freshwater animal diversity assessment. Hydrobiologia 595 (2008), pp. 93-99, doi: 10.1007 / 978-1-4020-8259-7_11 .
  • KA Økland, J. Økland, G. Geimer, JA Massard: Freshwater bryozoans (Bryozoa) of Norway IV: Distribution and ecology of four species of Plumatella with notes on Hyalinella punctata. Hydrobiologia 501 (2003), pp. 179-198, doi: 10.1023 / A: 1026244101302 .
  • JA Massard, G. Geimer: A survey on the history of freshwater bryozoology in Belgium and Luxembourg. In: PN Wyse Jackson, ME Spencer Jones (eds), Annals of Bryozoology: aspects of the history of research on bryozoans. Dublin 2002, pp. 133-170.
  • TS Wood, LJ Wood, G. Geimer, J. Massard: Freshwater bryozoans of New Zealand: a preliminary survey. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 32 (1998), pp 639-648. PDF
  • JA Massard, G. Geimer: On the occurrence of Fredericella indica Annandale, 1909 (Phylactolaemata) in Europe. In: DP Gordon, AM Smith, JA Grant-Mackie: Bryozoans in space and time. Proceedings of the 10th International Bryozoology Conference (Wellington, New Zealand, 1995). Wellington 1996, pp. 187-192.
  • JA Massard, G. Geimer: Note on the freshwater Bryozoa of Israel (Phylactolaemata). In F. Bigey (ed.), JL d'Hondt (collab.): Bryozoaires actuels et fossiles: Bryozoa living and fossil. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences naturelles de l'Ouest de la France, Mémoire HS 1 (1991), pp. 243-253.
  • JA Massard, G. Geimer: Note on the freshwater Bryozoa (Ectoprocta, Phylactolaemata) of Tenerife. Vieraea 19 (1990), pp. 327-338.

History of science and medicine

  • JA Massard: Aspects de l'histoire de la météorologie au Luxembourg. Ferrantia (Travaux scientifiques du musée national d'histoire naturelle de Luxembourg) 43 (2005), pp. 9-20. PDF
  • JA Massard, G. Geimer: Chronology: Regards sur l'histoire du Musée national d'histoire naturelle. Overview of the history of the National Museum of Natural History. In: S. Philippo (Red.): 150 Joër Musée national d'histoire naturelle du Luxembourg. Luxembourg 2004, pp. 6-89.
  • JA Massard: With the greatest vehemence: Cholera epidemics and public hygiene in the 19th century using the example of Luxembourg. In: «Be clean ...»! A history of hygiene and public health in Europe. Musée d'Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg (ed.), Wienand, Cologne 2004, pp. 192–203.
  • JA Massard, G. Geimer: The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and Asiatic Cholera at the turn of the century. Scientiarum Historia 26 (1-2) (2000), pp. 55-71.
  • JA Massard: Science and Medicine in the 18th Century in Luxembourg. Bulletin de la Société des sciences médicales du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, numéro spécial 1 (1999), pp. 107-126.
  • JA Massard, G. Geimer: Luxemburg en de cholera 1832. Geschiedenis der Geneeskunde, 4 (2) (1997), pp. 118-125.
  • JA Massard: 1886-1996: One hundred and ten years of electric light in Echternach. A contribution to the history of public and private lighting in the 19th and early 20th centuries in Luxembourg with a view of the German border area. In: Annuaire de la Ville d'Echternach 1996, Echternach 1997, pp. 101–144.
  • JA Massard: The Luxembourg Liebig student Joseph Namur, pharmacist and professor in Echternach. In: Festschrëft 150 Joër Iechternacher Kolléisch (1841-1991), Luxembourg 1992, pp. 481–558.
  • JA Massard: La vie scientifique. In: M. Gerges (ed.): Mémorial 1989: la Société luxembourgeoise de 1839 à 1989. Les Publications Mosellanes, Luxembourg 1989, pp. 408-440.
  • JA Massard: The Canton Esch and Cholera 1865/1866. Galerie 3 (1985), No. 1, pp. 41-52, No. 2: 207-218; Galerie 4 (1986), No. 1, pp. 41-58, No. 2, pp. 225-242.

Popular science articles

  • JA Massard & G. Geimer: On the trail of the brown bear on both sides of the Sauer. In: Heimatkalender 2010 Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, Bitburg 2009, pp. 95-102. PDF
  • JA Massard: 300 years of potatoes in Luxembourg: (I) Europe discovers the potato. (II) Grundbirne, Grompir, Gromper: the potato conquers Luxembourg. (III) The potato in Luxembourg in the 19th century. Lëtzebuerger Journal 2009, (Part I): No. 15 (Jan. 22), p. 23; No. 16 (Jan. 23), p. 10, No. 17 (Jan. 24/25), p. 11 (Part 2): No. 18 (Jan. 27), p. 23, No. 19 (Jan. 28), p. 21; (Part III): No. 20 (Jan. 29), p. 9, No. 21 (Jan. 30), p. 21. Article PDF text with comments and Credentials. (PDF; 353 kB)
  • JA Massard: apparent death, buried alive, raising the dead in Luxembourg and elsewhere. Lëtzebuerger Journal 2008, No. 215 (Nov. 5), pp. 24-25, No. 216 (Nov. 6), p. 23. Article PDF text with comments and comments. Credentials. (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  • JA Massard, G. Geimer, P. Kauthen, P. Schiltz: From the blue foot and the Echternach monk Placidus Eringer. Home calendar 2009 Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, Bitburg 2008, pp. 107–113.
  • JA Massard: A hundred years ago: The phylloxera is here! An uninvited guest from America puts Luxembourg's viticulture in danger. Lëtzebuerger Journal 2007, No. 143 (July 27), pp. 19-21. Text PDF
  • JA Massard: Damvillers, Mansfeld and son: Ambroise Paré, the father of surgery, and Luxembourg. Lëtzebuerger Journal 2007, No. 74 (April 17), pp. 11-12. Text PDF
  • JA Massard: Historical and scientific expedition through the canton of Echternach. Nos Cahiers, 19 (2-3) (1998): 363-393. Corrigendum: p. 371: «L. Laven "instead of" J. Lavas ». PDF
  • JA Massard: Biology and sex education in Luxembourg. Lëtzebuerger Almanach 1989, Luxemburg 1988, pp. 124-131. PDF
  • JA Massard: Wolves in Luxembourg. Lëtzebuerger Almanach 1987, Luxemburg 1986, pp. 353–374. PDF
  • JA Massard: Miracles in Luxembourg. Lëtzebuerger Almanach 1986, Luxemburg 1985, pp. 127-135. PDF

The full list of all publications can be found on Jos Massard's website.

swell

  • International Who's Who of Intellectuals. 10th Edition 1993/94. International Biographical Center , Cambridge 1993, p. 314.
  • Dictionary of International Biography. 24th edition 1996. International Biographical Center, Cambridge 1995, p. 261.
  • Men of Achievement. 17th edition. International Biographical Center, Cambridge 1997, p. 331.
  • G. Hausemer : Luxembourg Lexicon. The Grand Duchy from A – Z. Editions Binsfeld, Luxembourg 2006, p. 286f.
  • Jos Massard's website

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TS Wood, B. Okamura: Plumatella geimermassardi, a newly recognized freshwater bryozoan from Britain, Ireland and continental Europe (Bryozoa: Phylactolaemata). (PDF; 375 kB) Hydrobiologia, 518 (2004), pp. 1-7. Cf. http://www.bryozoans.nl/soorten/en/plumatella_geimermassardi.html .
personal data
SURNAME Massard, Jos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Massard, Joseph Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg zoologist and medical historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Tétange