Louis Joubin

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Louis Joubin

Louis Marie Adolphe Olivier Édouard Joubin (born February 27, 1861 in Epinal , † April 24, 1935 in Paris ) was a French marine zoologist and mollusc specialist. He was a professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris.

Scientific stations

As assistant to Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers , he took over the management of the institute in Banyuls-sur-Mer in 1882 and the institute in Roscoff two years later . After receiving his doctorate in natural sciences in 1885, he received his doctorate in medicine in 1888 (subject: Recherches sur la morphologie comparée des glandes salivaires ). He then taught at the University of Rennes , where he took over the chair of molluscs , worms and zoophytes in 1903 as the successor to Edmond Perrier . From 1905 Joubin was president of the Société zoologique de France .

In 1906 he was entrusted by Prince Albert I of Monaco as the first director of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, which he helped create. Joubin was head of the mollusc department at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris from 1917. In 1920 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences in France.

Major publications

He published work on

  • 1894 Les Némertiens ( cord worms )
  • 1895 Contribution à l'étude des Céphalopodes de l'Atlantique nord ( cephalopods of the North Atlantic )
  • In 1895 he wrote the first description of the scaled deep-sea squid Lepidoteuthis grimaldii JOUBIN on the occasion of its discovery together with Prince Albert I of Monaco on his research yacht.
  • 1908–1913 Études sur les gisements de mollusques comestibles des côtes de France (edible mussels from French coasts)
  • 1912 La Vie dans les océans ( Oceanology )
  • 1920 Le Fond de la mer (The seabed)
  • 1926 Les Animaux (The Animals)
  • 1933 Comment se nourrissent les animaux des grandes profondeurs (How deep-sea animals feed)
  • and to other marine molluscs and arrow worms .

Honors

The Antarctic sponge Scolymastra joubini was named after him in 1916 by the French sponge specialist Émile Topsent. Scolymastra joubini can grow up to 2 meters tall and its life expectancy is now estimated at 10,000 years. He is also the namesake for the Joubin Islands in Antarctica.

literature

  • Jean-Jacques Amigo, “Joubin (Louis, Marie, Adolphe, Olivier, Édouard)”, 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 )
  • Philippe Jaussaud, Édouard R. Brygoo: Du Jardin au Muséum en 516 biographies. Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris, 2004, ISBN 2-85653-565-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Jacques Amigo, “Joubin (Louis, Marie, Adolphe, Olivier, Édouard)”, 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 )
  2. ↑ JOUBIN Louis Marie Adolphe Olivier Édouard. on: the website of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques .
  3. ↑ L. Joubin: Cephalopodes provenant des campagnes de la Princesse-Alice (1891-1897). (= Result of the Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier Prince Souverain de Monaco. 17). Monaco 1900.
  4. ↑ Jan Guldner: How old is the oldest living being on earth? ( Memento from October 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) In: Handelsblatt. - Technology, September 29, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Joubin, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Joubin, Louis Marie Adolphe Olivier Édouard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French marine zoologist and mollusc specialist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Epinal
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1935
Place of death Paris