Paul Pelseneer
Jean Paul Louis Pelseneer (born June 26, 1863 in Brussels ; † May 5, 1945 there ) was a Belgian zoologist.
Pelseneer was interested in natural history and especially mollusks from an early age. He studied natural sciences at the University of Brussels, where he received his doctorate in 1884, and then studied with Alfred Mathieu Giard (University of Lille) at the marine laboratory in Wimereux and with Ray Lankester at University College London . Afterwards he was a chemistry teacher in Ghent and only dealt with zoology in his spare time, for which he also visited the Giard marine laboratory. During the German occupation of Belgium in World War I, he lost his job as a teacher. From 1919 he was permanent secretary of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences, which he remained until 1936.
In 1889 he became a corresponding and in 1903 a full member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences. In 1906 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in Leeds and in 1934 the University of Brussels and in 1922 an honorary member of the Malacological Society of London. In 1947 he was posthumously awarded the Cuvier Prize. He was a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences since 1931 .
He described 31 new species of mollusks and edited material collected from the Challenger , Belgica and Siboga expeditions . He named the infra-class of mussels Protobranchia and the family of oar snails Notobranchaeidae .
The genus Pelseneeria was named in his honor. The same applies to the Pelseneer Island in Antarctica.
Fonts
- Introduction à l'étude des Mollusques, 1894
- Essai d'Ethologie zoologique d'après l'étude des Mollusques, 1935
- Mollusca. A treatise on zoology, Volume 5, London: Black 1906
literature
- MR Mayné u. a., Obituaries in Annales du Société Royal Zoologique de Belgique 76, 1946, pp. 37-63.
- P. Brien: Notice sur Paul Pelseneer, membre de l'Académie, Annuaire de l'Académie Royal de Belgique 117, 1951
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Pelseneer in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pelseneer, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pelseneer, Jean Paul Louis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1945 |
| Place of death | Brussels |