Paul Paris

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Jean Ferdinand Paul Paris (1875–1938)

Jean Ferdinand Paul Paris (born August 16, 1875 in Chaumont , Haute-Marne department , † May 2, 1938 in Dijon , Côte-d'Or department ) was a French zoologist and botanist .

Live and act

Title page of the first edition of Alauda

Paul Paris joined the scientific faculty of the Université de Bourgogne in 1901 , where he began as a taxidermist . Here he slowly but steadily went through different stages of his career. His first mentor at the faculty was the physiologist Clément Léger Nicolas Jobert (1840–1910), who increasingly suffered from dementia . In a fit of disbelief, he burned many documents, recordings, manuscripts and photographs that had been taken in his laboratory. Much research that Paris worked on between 1901 and 1905 fell victim to this event and explains the gap in scientific publications for this period. Nevertheless, his physiological training was useful for his later branches of research in the fields of zoology, botany and geology. It was not until 1922 that he gave his first lectures on zoology and the physiology of animals. After the death of Marie Eugène Edmond Hesse (1872-1934) in 1934, he took over his chair.

Paris dealt with both zoological and botanical questions, but his main research focus was ornithology. So what he did, who edited the second volume of Faune de France, a 92-volume work, in 1921 . This volume dealt with the birds of France.

Paris was also very interested in freshwater fauna. In Saint-Jean-de-Losne he was the director of the Aquicole Grimaldi station , which was located on the tributary of the Canal de Bourgogne to the Saône . Here he built a small museum with a study center, which was visited every year during the holiday season by numerous students, not only from Dijon, but also from other faculties.

In Dijon he was the curator of the Natural History Museum, which was one of the best in the whole province. He also kept a salmon rearing in the Jardin botanique de l'Arquebuse de Dijon . In 1935 he published an article in Bulletin scientifique de Bourgogne under the title “Les captures du pêcheur dans nos eaux douces. Tableaux de détermination. “, In which he identified native fish , amphibians and crustaceans or crayfish .

The Société d'Aquiculture awarded him a bronze medal (Grand module) in 1928 and in 1935 he was awarded the Grande Médaille Annuelle .

In 1929 he founded Alauda , an ornithological journal, with Jacques de Chavigny (1880–1963), Jacques Delamain (1874–1953), Adrien Joseph Louis Lavauden (1881–1935), Noël Mayaud (1899–1989), Henri Heim de Balsac (1899–1979), Paul Poty (1889–1962), Henri Louis Ernest Jouard (1896–1938) and Paris were part of the editorial team.

Paris passed away after a painful illness.

Dedication names

1928 described Henri Louis Ernest Jouard Parus ater parisi , a synonym for the tit ( Periparus ater ( Linnaeus , 1758)) and 1929 Xuanmu brachydactyla parisi a synonym for the treecreeper ( Certhia brachydactyla megarhynchos Brehm, CL , 1831)

literature

  • Jacques Pellegrin: Necrology - Paul Paris . In: Bulletin de la Société centrale d'Aquiculture et de Pêche . tape 45 , no. 4-6 , 1938, ISSN  1958-6698 , pp. 33-34 .
  • Henri Heim de Balsac: Paul Paris . In: Alauda (=  3 ). tape 10 , no. 3 , 1938, pp. 223–228 ( bibliotheques.mnhn.fr ).
  • Henri Louis Ernest Jouard: De la variabilité geographique de Parus ater dans l'Europe occidentale . In: Revue française d'ornithologie (=  2 ). tape 12 , no. 235 , 1928, pp. 255–374 ( bibliotheques.mnhn.fr ).
  • Henri Louis Ernest Jouard: Sous-espèces nouvelles de Passereaux paléarctiques (Pardidae et Certhidae) . In: Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France . tape 54 , 1929, pp. 245-252 ( gallica.bnf.fr ).

Fonts (selection)

  • Faune de France: Oiseaux . tape 2 . Lechevalier, Paris 1921 ( faunedefrance.org [PDF; 21.8 MB ]).
  • Les captures du pêcheur dans nos eaux douces. Tableaux de détermination. In: Bulletin scientifique de Bourgogne . tape 5 , 1935, pp. 89-121 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Jacques Pellegrin, p. 33.
  2. ^ Henri Heim de Balsac, p. 223.
  3. ^ Henri Louis Ernest Jouard (1928), p. 273.
  4. ^ Henri Louis Ernest Jouard (1929), p. 249.
personal data
SURNAME Paris, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paris, Jean Ferdinand Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French zoologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Chaumont , Haute-Marne department
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1938
Place of death Dijon , Côte-d'Or department