Jean-Louis Fage

Jean-Louis Fage , with full name Jean Baptiste Louis Fage , (born September 30, 1883 in Limoges , † May 28, 1964 in Dijon ) was a French marine biologist , arachnologist and speleologist . He was from Limoges.

Life

He began his biological studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and in the laboratory of Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue , the Laboratoire maritime de Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue , where he worked on Rémy Perrier (1861-1936) (the brother of Edmond Perrier ) and Gaston Bonnier (1853–1922).

Fage submitted his doctoral thesis on the nephridia of the polychaetes in 1906, Recherches sur les organes segmentaires des annélides polychètes . After receiving his doctorate, he worked for 14 years in the marine biology laboratory of Banyuls-sur-Mer , the Laboratoire de Banyuls-sur-Mer . During this time he dealt with crustaceans , plankton and cave exploration.

In 1920 he became an employee of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. In 1938 he became professor and director there, successor to Charles Joseph Gravier (1865-1937). He kept this chair for the worms and crustaceans from 1938 to 1954. After living as a widower for three years, he died at his daughter's house in Dijon.

He chaired the caving commission of the Center national de la recherche scientifique ( CNRS ) Laboratoire souterrain de Moulis and was the first president of the Comité de direction . He also chaired the CNRS Speleology Commission ( Commission de spéléologie du CNRS ). From 1942 he was a member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.

Fonts

L. Fage, R. Legendre: Pêches planctoniques à la lumière, effectuées à Banyuls-sur-Mer et à Concarneau. I. Annélides polychètes. In: Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Génerale. 67, pp. 23-222 (1927).
L. Fage: Pêches plantoniques à la lumiére effectuées à Banyuls-sur-Mer et à Concarneau. III. Crustacés. In: Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale. 76: 105-248 (1933).
L. Fage: Cumacés. Expédition océanographique belge dans les eaux côtières africaines de l'Atlantique Sud (1948-1949): résultats scientifiques. 3 (1). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles 1951, pp. 1-10 ff.
L. Fage: Sur un type nouveau de Mysidacé des eaux souterraines de l'Ile de Zanzibar. CR Acad. Sci., Paris 1924, pp. 2127-2129.
L. Fage: Lepidophthalmus servatus Fage. Type nouveau de Mysidacé des eaux souterraines de Zanzibar. - Biospeologica, Arch. Zool. Exp. Gén., Paris 1925 63, pp. 525-532.
L. Fage: Aperçu sur les recherches d'océanographie biologiques récemment poursuivies en France. Journées des 24 and 25 février 1953. Center belge d'océanographie et de recherches sous-marines. Publications du FNRS, Bruxelles, 1958, pp. 49-65.
E. Chevreux, L. Fage: Amphipodes. Fauns de France. 9. Amphipodes. Paul Lechevalier, Paris 1925. (Reprint: Kraus, Nendeln 1970)

Web links

Another portrait of J.-L. Fage fi.cnr.it
Portrait of J.-L. Question [2]
Le laboratoire maritime de Saint-Vaast-La-Hougue a summary ( PDF )
A group picture [3]

Individual evidence

↑ Biographical etymology of marine organisms and their names [1]
^ List of members since 1666: Letter F. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 12, 2019 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Fage, Jean-Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fage, Jean Baptiste Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French marine biologist, arachnologist and speleologist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 30, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Limoges
DATE OF DEATH	May 28, 1964
Place of death	Dijon

[1] Biographical etymology of marine organisms and their names [1]

[2] List of members since 1666: Letter F. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 12, 2019 (French).