Paul Henri Fischer (malacologist)

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Paul Henri Fischer , mostly quoted as Paul Fischer , (* July 7, 1835 in Paris , † November 29, 1893 ibid) was a French malacologist .

Life

Fischer was the son of a cloth merchant who had been interested in natural history since his youth. He studied medicine in Bordeaux and Paris and from 1861 worked at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris in the palaeontology department under the direction of Adolphe d'Archiac (1802–1868). At the same time he received his doctorate in medicine in 1863 and worked as a doctor for ten years before turning entirely to malacology. Despite multiple applications and his scientific merits, he was not given a higher position at the Natural History Museum than that of an assistant (from 1872).

He published and researched mainly on recent and fossil mollusks. From 1880 to 1883 he took part in four marine biological expeditions. He was from 1856 with Alexandre César Bernardi (1801-1863) editor of the Journal de Conchyliologie. His main work is the three-volume Manuel de conchyliologie of around 1370 pages.

He first described the superfamilies Dimyoidea and Monotoidea and the family Dimyidae in the mussel order Pectinida .

In 1886 he was President of the French Zoological Society and was President of the French Geological Society on several occasions.

His son Pierre Marie Henri Fischer (1865–1916) was also a malacologist, as was his grandson Paul Henri Fischer .

Fonts

  • Faune conchyliologique marine du department de la Gironde et des côtes du sud-ouest de la France, 1865, Supplement 1875
  • Catalog des nudibranches et céphalopodes des côtes océaniques de la France, 1867 to 1875
  • Recherches sur les Actinies des côtes océaniques de France, 1876
  • Recherches sur les reptiles fossiles de l'Afrique australe 1870
  • with LC Kiener: Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Paris: la collection Lamarck, celle du prince Masséna (appartenant maintenant a MB Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs; Paris: JB Baillière, 1873 to 1880
  • Une nouvelle classification des bivalves 1885
  • Manuel de conchyliologie et de paleontologie conchyliologique, 3 volumes, 1880 to 1887
  • Paléontologie de l'ile de Rhodes, 1887
  • Catalog et distribution geographique des mollusques terrestres, fluviatiles et marins d'une partie de l'Indochine, 1891
  • with H. Crosse : Etudes sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, Mission scientique en Mexique et dans l´Amerique centrale, 1893, 1894

literature

  • Obituary by Hippolyte Crosse , Journal de Conchyologie, 42, 1894, 5-12
  • Henri Douvillé , obituary in Bulletin de Société Geologique de France, 23, 1895, 203–224
  • Entry in P. Jaussaud, É-R. Brygoo: Du Jardin au Muséum en 516 biographies, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris 2004

Web links

Wikisource: Paul Henri Fischer  - Sources and full texts (English)

References and comments

  1. ↑ Also Paul-Henri Fischer
  2. ^ Often called Chevalier Bernardi, died 1863
  3. ↑ 1850 by Petit de la Saussaye. However, a few years later it stopped being published and was re-founded by Fischer and Bernardi
  4. ^ Crosse 1826-1898
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Paul Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French malacologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1893
Place of death Paris