Joseph Paul Gaimard

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Joseph Paul Gaimard (lithograph by Emile Lassalle)
Entry of the birth of Joseph Paul Gaimard in Saint-Zacharie (January 31, 1793 at 8:00 a.m.)

Joseph Paul Gaimard (born January 31, 1793 in Saint-Zacharie , Département Var , † December 10, 1858 in Paris ) was a French surgeon , naturalist , ichthyologist and zoologist .

Gaimard studied medicine at the Naval School in Toulon and joined the French Navy in 1816. Together with the researcher Jean René Constant Quoy , he served between 1817 and 1820 as a marine surgeon on the ships Uranie and Physicienne , which circumnavigated the globe under Louis de Freycinet . The Urania shipwrecked the Falkland Islands and returned on the Physicienne that was sent as a replacement. Upon returning, he wrote a report on the zoological results with Quoy. In 1826 he visited natural history museums in Europe in preparation for another expedition. He circumnavigated the world again in 1826 and 1829 under Jules Dumont d'Urville on the Astrolabe . A diary of his journey with Uranie has survived, but it is incomplete. After the end of his second circumnavigation, he published a report on the zoological results. He also traveled to Russia to investigate a cholera outbreak, which was one of the first European reports of the epidemic, which was then new in Europe.

From 1835 to 1836 he was scientific director of the expedition to Iceland and Greenland on the La Recherche . From 1838 to 1840 he was head of the scientific commission for the north and traveled to Svalbard , northern Norway, Lapland , the Faroe Islands and Arkhangelsk. In 1839 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

At least three species were named after him:

He never married. In 1848 he retired and died in poverty. Little is known about his later life.

Works

Title page of Voyage en Islande et au Groënland
  • Louis de Freycinet (ed.): Voyage autour du Monde, entrepris par Ordre du Roi ... exécuté sur les corvettes de ... l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820 . Part 1 and 2: Zoology . Pillet Aîné, Paris 1824 (with Quoy)
  • Voyage en Islande et au Groënland exécuté pendant les années 1835 et 1836 sur la corvette La Recherche ... dans le but de découvrir les traces de La Lilloise. Bertrand, Paris 1838-1852.
  • Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe, exécuté par Ordre du Roi, pendant les annés 1826 - 1827 - 1828 - 1829, sous le commandement de MJ Dumont D'Urville, capitaine de Vaisseau. Tastu, Paris 1830-1834. (with Dumont D'Urville, Quoy, Boisduval and others)

Web links

Commons : Joseph Paul Gaimard  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of birth 1793 e.g. B. Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Birds, 2014. 1796 is sometimes also given.
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Joseph-Paul Gaimard. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 16, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Gaimard, Joseph Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French naturalist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1793 or 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Zacharie , Var department
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1858
Place of death Paris