Jules Gosselet
Jules Gosselet (born April 19, 1832 in Cambrai , † March 20, 1916 in Lille ) was a French geologist and paleontologist.
Gosselet initially studied pharmacy without a degree and was a math teacher at the Lycée de Quesnoy when he turned to geology and was a taxidermist at the Sorbonne . In 1860 he received his doctorate there (Mémoire sur les terrains primaires de la Belgique, des environs d'Avesnes et du Boulonnais ). He was then a high school teacher in Bordeaux and a professor at the Faculté des Sciences in Poitiers (the forerunner of the University of Poitiers). In 1864 he became the first professor of geology at Lille University .
He dealt with the regional geology of northern France and neighboring areas (Belgium), about which he published a monograph. He wrote other monographs on the Ardennes and the hydrogeology of northern France. He found evidence of a large Variscan thrust line (Faille du Midi) in northern France, which bounded the coal basins to the south.
In paleontology he dealt with brachiopods .
At the request of Heinrich Ernst Beyrich , Ferdinand von Roemer and Justus Roth , he was accepted into the German Geological Society on January 8, 1862 . In 1870 he was the founder of the Société géologique du Nord , which still exists today.
In 1882 he was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London . In 1902 he founded a museum that is now part of the Natural History Museum of Lille. In 1913 he became a foreign member of the Académie des sciences .
In 1910 the French Geological Society founded the Prix Gosselet, which has been awarded every four years since 1911 in Applied Geology.
The mineral gosseletite, an andalusite variant, was named after him.
Fonts
- Esquisse géologique du Nord de la France et des contrées voisines, 1880–1903
- Leçons sur les nappes aquifères du Nord, 1886–1888
- L'Ardenne, 1888
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Hertz: Journal of the German Geological Society. Wilhelm Hertz, 1862, p. 16. Restricted preview in the Google book search
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter G. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 19, 2019 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gosselet, Jules |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French geologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cambrai |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1916 |
| Place of death | Lille |