Paul Fabre-Domergue
Paul-Louis Fabre-Domergue (born August 16, 1861 in Saint-Pierre , Martinique , † June 28, 1940 in Paris ) was a French medic, naturalist and embryologist.
biography
He came from a Creole family who had settled on the island of Martinique since the seventeenth century. The house where he was born was destroyed in 1902 during an eruption of the Montagne Pelée volcano . He went to Toulouse in 1878 to complete his baccalaureate and then began to study medicine.
In 1884 he moved to Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900) in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Paris, who accepted him as a fellow in his laboratory. For a short time he went to the station biologique de Concarneau to Georges Pouchet (1833-1894), a professor of comparative anatomy at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. There he met many scientists who u. a. examined the microscopic fauna of algae and plankton . He had already dealt with protozoa during his medical studies . In 1888 he supported the thesis that the eyelash infusoria represent a separate order.
Finally he returned as a doctor (head of the clinical laboratory) at the Hôpital Necker in the 15th arrondissement in the service of the surgery professor Jean-François-Auguste Le Dentu (1841-1926).
He also devoted himself to painting and sculpture. He was a remarkable photographer, he followed technical progress, produced figures and landscape emulations with Émile Joachim Constant Puyo (1857–1933), one of the most important exponents of French pictorialism . He was one of the first to practice color photography.
Fascinated by microscopic techniques, he invented a preservation container that bears his name.
After Pouchet's death in 1894, he became deputy director of the station biologique de Concarneau .
Based on data from d'Henneguy trout embryology, he began studying the spawning and growth of marine fish. In 1896 he dealt with the sardine problem ( Sardina pilchardus ), which Pouchet could not solve either. A decree of June 6, 1899 appointed him Inspecteur Général des Pêches Maritimes . In 1910 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor ( Chevalier de la légion d'honneur ).
During the First World War (1914-1918) he volunteered to produce a typhus serum in the Hôpital d'instruction des armées du Val-de-Grâce .
Works
- with E. Biétrix: Développement de la sole (Solea vulgaris): introduction à l'étude de la pisciculture marine. Vuibert et Nony, Paris 1905.
- with E. Biétrix: Sur les oeufs et les alevins de la sardine dans les eaux de Concarneau. In: Soc. Biol. Paris. CR 10. sér., 3, no. 19, 1896, pp. 551-552. Extract by E. Marchand in Soc. Sci. Nat. Ouest France, Bull. 7, 1st Trim., Pt. 2, pp. 4-5.
- with E. Biétrix: Sur l'existence et le développement des oeufs de la sardine dans les eaux de Concarneau. In: Acad. Sci. Paris, CR, 122, 1896, pp. 1347-1349. Abstract in Revue Sci. 4, sér. 5, no.25, p. 789.
- with E. Biétrix: Sur la reproduction de la sardine océanique . In: Cong. Intern. Bad luck. Marit. Sables-d'Olonne, 1896, pp. 140-144.
- with E. Biétrix: Recherches biologiques applicables à la pisciculture maritime sur les oeufs et les larves des poissons de mer et sur le turbot. In: Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.). 8. sér., 4, 1897, p. 173.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fabre-Domergue, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fabre-Domergue, Paul-Louis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French medic, naturalist and embryologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Pierre (Martinique) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 1940 |
| Place of death | Paris |