Perceval de Loriol

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Charles Louis Perceval de Loriol also Loriol Le-Fort (born July 24, 1828 in Geneva , † December 23, 1908 in Cologny , reformed , resident in Geneva and Etoy ) was a Swiss paleontologist .

family

Perceval de Loriol was born on July 24, 1828 in Geneva as the son of the artillery officer Charles de Loriol and Marie Sophie nee de Portes. In 1854 Perceval de Loriol married Louise Sophie, the daughter of Jean Le Fort. He died on December 23, 1908, five months after he had turned 80 in Cologny.

Life

Perceval de Loriol spent his youth in Vaud and Geneva, after which he completed his studies in natural sciences and paleontology at the University of Geneva with François Jules Pictet . As a result, Perceval de Loriol was initially employed briefly as an estate manager in Geneva and Lorraine before he worked at the Natural History Museum in Geneva for almost forty years. As a respected paleontologist and stratigrapher, he was also one of the founders of the Swiss Paleontological Society. In addition, he worked as editor of the "Mémoires de la Société paleontologique suisse" . Perceval de Loriol wrote several monographs and numerous smaller papers, especially on the Jurassic , Cretaceous and Old Tertiary Echinoderms of Western and Central Europe and North Africa. His correspondence is kept in the ETH Library in Zurich . He evaluated the fossil collection that he had received from Casimir Mösch .

Fonts

  • Monograph of the Crinoides fossiles de la Suisse. Mémoires de la Société Paléontologique Suisse, Vol. IV, Première Partie, 1 - 52, Planches I - VIII, Ramboz et Schuchardt, Geneva 1877
  • Monograph of the Crinoides fossiles de la Suisse. Mémoires de la Société Paléontologique Suisse, Vol. V, Deuxième Partie, 53 - 124, Planches IX - IV, 1878
  • Monograph of the Crinoides fossiles de la Suisse. Mémoires de la Société Paléontologique Suisse, Charles Schuchardt, 125 - 300, Planches XV - XXI, Geneva 1877 - 1879
  • Description of the Échinides tertiaires de la Suisse.
  • Monograph paleontologique des couches de la zone à Ammonites tenuilobatus (Baden layers) de Baden (Argovie)

honors and awards

  • The University of Geneva awarded Perceval de Loriol an honorary doctorate in 1902 in recognition of his achievements in the field of paleontology .

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personal data
SURNAME Loriol, Perceval de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loriol, Charles Louis Perceval de (full name); Loriol Le-Fort, Perceval de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1908
Place of death Cologny