Marie Jules César le Lorgne de Savigny

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Provins Cemetery - grave of Jules-César Savigny

Marie Jules César le Lorgne de Savigny (born April 5, 1777 in Provins , France , † October 5, 1851 ) was a French naturalist and zoologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Savigny ".

Live and act

At first he was very interested in botany, he worked at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier . Cuvier suggested to Napoleon Bonaparte to take the 21-year-old de Savigny with him as a zoologist on the Egyptian campaign from 1798 to 1802, so he accompanied Napoleon's science expedition to Egypt ( Egyptian campaign from 1798 to 1801). Savingy was responsible for studying invertebrates, while Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844) took care of the vertebrates. After his return to Paris in 1802, Savigny began to process the large collections from Egypt. In 1809, the research publication Description de l'Égypte appeared about this trip , in which he presented his findings.

In 1821 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences . From April 13, 1826 he was a corresponding member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Taxa named after de Savigny

In his honor was the genus Savignya DC. named from the cruciferous plant family (Brassicaceae). Other species or genera are:

  • Trididemnum savignii (Herdman, 1886)
  • Sepia savignyi (H. de Blainville, 1827)
  • Mitra savignyi (Payraudeau, 1826)
  • Anachis savignyi (Moazzo, 1939)
  • Savignyella (Levinsen, 1909)
  • Ophiactis savignyi (J. Müller & Troschel, 1842; Ljungman, 1867)
  • Siderastrea savignyana (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850)
  • Microcosmus savignyi (Monniot, 1962)
  • Dynamenella savignii (H. Milne Edwards, 1840)
  • Leptochelia savignyi (Krøyer, 1842)
  • Savignyella (Levinsen, 1900)
  • Planaxis savignyi (Deshayes, 1844)
  • Vexillum savignyi (Payraudeau, 1826)
  • Diadema savignyi (Michelin, 1845)
  • Thais savignyi (GP Deshayes, 1844)
  • Goniopora savignyi (Dana, 1846)
  • Loimia savignyi (M'Intosh, 1885)

Fonts (selection)

  • JC de Savigny: Histoire naturelle et mythologique de l'ibis . Allais: Paris 1805
  • JC de Savigny: Description de l'Égypte . Paris, 1809
  • JC de Savigny: Mémoires sur les animaux sans vertèbres . d'Éterville & Dufour: Paris, 1816
  • JC de Savigny: Histoire naturelle et mythologique de l ' ibis , Paris, Allais libraire, 1805.
  • JC de Savigny: Système des oiseaux de l'Égypte et de la Syrie , dans Description de l'Égypte, Histoire naturelle, Tome premier , Paris, 1809, p. 62 to 114.
  • JC de Savigny: Explication sommaire des planches de reptiles (supplément), dans Description de l'Égypte, Histoire naturelle, Tome premier , Paris, 1809, p. 161 to 184.
  • JC de Savigny: Tableau systématique des ascidies , dans Description de l'Égypte, Histoire naturelle, Tome premier , Paris, 1809, 2 è partie, p. 1 to 58.
  • JC de Savigny: Système des annelides ..., dans Description de l'Égypte, Histoire naturelle, Tome premier , Paris, 1809, 3 è partie, p. 1 to 128.
  • JC de Savigny: Explication sommaire des planches ... dont les dessins ont été fournis par MJC Savigny pour l'Histoire naturelle de l'ouvrage , dans Description de l'Égypte, Histoire naturelle, Tome premier , Paris, 1809, 4 è partie , p.1 à 336.
  • JC de Savigny: Description sommaire des mammifères carnassiers ..., dans Description de l'Égypte, Histoire naturelle, Tome second , Paris, 1812, p.744 à 750.
  • JC de Savigny: Oiseaux du Nil , Paris, édition du Jardin de Flore, 1979.

literature

  • Paul Pallary: Marie Jules-César Savigny. in vol. 17, 20, 23 Mémoires présentés à l'Institut d'Égypte. Le Caire 1931-34.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter S. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 25, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Lorgne de Savigny, Marie Jules César le
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Provins , France
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1851