Julien Desjardins
Julien François Desjardins (born July 27, 1799 in Center de Flacq , Mauritius , † April 18, 1840 in Paris , France ) was a Franco-Mauritian zoologist .
Life
From 1822 to 1824 Desjardins studied in Paris, where he took courses with Louis Jacques Thénard , Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac , Pierre André Latreille and René Desfontaines , among others . He first worked as a civil engineer before he discovered his passion for zoology.
On August 11, 1829, Desjardins was one of the founding members of the Société royale des Arts et des Sciences de l'île Maurice alongside Charles Telfair , Jacques Delisse and Wenceslas Bojer . Desjardins was the first secretary of this society and first editor of the annual journal "Report annuel sur les travaux de la Société d'histoire naturelle de l'île Maurice" until he returned to France in 1839.
Desjardins' zoological collections, which he brought together in Mauritius, were initially kept in the Desjardins Museum in Port Louis, which was inaugurated by Governor William Maynard Gomm in 1842 . In 1885 the museum was opened together with a library in the Mauritius Institute .
Memberships
When La Société Cuvierienne was founded in 1838 , he was one of the 140 founding members of the society.
Dedication names
Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville named the beetle taxa Cryptamorpha desjardinsii and Trochoideus desjardinsi and the extinct butterfly species Euploea desjardinsii in honor of Desjardins.
literature
- France Staub : Julien Desjardins - 1799-1840. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Maurtius . 5 (3). 1993: pp. 1-10.
- Théodore Monod (1976): L'ichthyologie à l'île Maurice de 1829 à 1846: autour de Julien Desjardins (1799-1840) . Biography Online (PDF; 1.8 MB)
- Société Cuvierienne: List of the Premiers Fondateurs de La Société Cuvierienne, Association universelle pour l'avancement de la Zoologie, de L'Anatomie comparée et de la Palaeontologie . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 1 , 1838, p. 189-192 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Société Cuvierienne, p. 190.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Desjardins, Julien |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Desjardins, Julien François (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French-Mauritian zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Center de Flacq , Mauritius |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1840 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |