Léopold de Folin
Alexandre Guillaume de Léopold, Marquis de Folin (* 1817 in Tournus , † 1896 in Biarritz ) was a French naval officer, oceanographer , zoologist and especially malacologist .
Life
L. de Folin was the son of Charles Louis de Folin (* 1783), his mother Caroline de Truchis de Lays (* 1795).
Léopold de Folin began his career as a naval officer. In 1866 L. de Folin was Commandant du port de Pauillac , near Bordeaux , then in Saint-Nazaire and finally harbor master, capitaine de port , in Bayonne . He can be considered the initiator of the first oceanographic research in France. He had convinced the French authorities, Ministres de la Marine et de l'Instruction publique , to carry out the first scientific investigation with the research vessel Travailleur from 1880 to 1882 into the depths of the Bay of Biscay , the Gulf of Gascogne , and the Mediterranean Sea below scientific direction by Alphonse Milne-Edwards . In 1883 aboard the Talisman for expeditions to the Azores , Canary Islands and Cape Verde Islands . In 1871 he was the founder of the Musée de la Mer de Biarritz . Léopold de Folin wrote reports on Caecidae (microscopic sea snails) that he collected during the HMS Challenger expedition from 1872 to 1876. He also described the genus Oceanida of sea snails in the family Eulimidae .
He was the brother-in-law of the naturalist Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet (1809-1892), who married his sister Noémie de Folin.
Honor taxon
The marine snail genus Folinella was named after de Folin.
Works (excerpt)
- Leopold de Folin: Les Batysiphons (premières pages d'une monographie du genre) in Actes de la société Linnéenne de Bordeaux . 1886.
- Leopold de Folin, L. Perier de Pauliac: Les Fonds de la Mer, études internationale sur les particularités nouvelles des régions sous-marines . 1867-1887.
- Leopold de Folin: Sous les mers. Campagne d'explorations you "travailleur" and you "talisman" . Avec 45 figures intercalées dans le texte. Librairie JB Baillière et fils, Paris 1887.
- Leopold de Folin: Pêches et chasses zoologiques . Avec 117 figures dessinées par l'auteur et intercalées dans le texte. Baillière, Paris 1893.
literature
- Léon Vaillant: Expeditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883 . Masson, Paris 1888.
- DR Moore: The Marquis de Folin and his work on the Caecidae. In: American Malacological Union, Annual Reports for 1965. 1966, pp. 35-36.
- J. Carpine-Lancre: La Société d'océanographie du golfe de Gascogne. In: Jean Bourgoin, Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre (eds.): L'aventure maritime, du golfe de Gascogne à Terre-Neuve. Editions du CTHS, Paris 1995, pp. 31-42.
Web links
- J. Forest, LB Holthius: Recueil de figures de crustaces nouveaux ou peu connus, 1883. Overview u. a. about Expedition of the Travailleur in English (PDF)
- Drawing of the Talisman (1862) ( Memento from January 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- Literature by and about Léopold de Folin in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Family genealogy
- ↑ archive.org
- ↑ General presentation of Brève histoire illustrée de l'océanographie: les scientifiques sur les chemins des mers of the station biologique de Roscoff with a section on L. de Folin ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Folin, Léopold de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Folin, Alexandre Guillaume de Léopold Marquis de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French naval officer, oceanographer, zoologist and especially malacologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tournus |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1896 |
| Place of death | Biarritz |