Léon Dufour

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Léon Dufour

Jean-Marie Léon Dufour , also spelling Léon Jean Marie Dufour (born April 10, 1780 in Saint-Sever , Département Landes , † April 18, 1865 ibid) was a French doctor and naturalist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Dufour ".

Dufour studied medicine in Paris from 1799 to 1806 and then moved back to Saint-Sever. As a field doctor he took part in the Spanish War of Independence between 1808 and 1814 . After the end of the war he moved back to his place of birth.

During his lifetime, he published 232 articles on arthropods (20 of them about spiders ) and was the author of the beetle research work Recherches anatomiques sur les Carabiques et sur plusieurs autres Coléoptères (1824–1826, Paris). The Dufour's gland in the abdomen of Stechimmen is named after him .

On April 26, 1830, he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. In honor of Dufour, the genus of the glossy bees from the Halictidae family was named Dufourea .

literature

  • Jean-Jacques Amigo, “Dufour (Jean-Marie, dit Léon)”, in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. ( ISBN 9782908866506 )
  • Chantal Boone (2003): Léon Dufour (1780-1865). Savant naturaliste et médecin . Atlantica (Anglet), 336 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geneanet: Jean Marie "Léon" Dufour .
  2. ↑ Jean-Jacques Amigo, "Dufour (Jean-Marie, dit Léon)", in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. ( ISBN 9782908866506 )
  3. ↑ Dufour's gland. On: Spektrum.de
  4. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter D. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 9, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Dufour, Léon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dufour, Jean-Marie Léon (full name); Dufour, Léon Jean Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Sever (Landes)
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1865
Place of death Saint-Sever (Landes)