Philippe Dautzenberg
Philippe Dautzenberg (born December 20, 1849 in Brussels , † May 9, 1935 in Paris ) was a Belgian malacologist .
Life
He was the son of the Flemish poet Johan Michiel Dautzenberg (1808–1869) and attended the Royal Athenaeum in Brussels. In 1867 he went to Paris to study at the Demy-Doineau et Braquenié carpet factory that belonged to friends of his father. There he married in 1872. Having become wealthy through the carpet factory, he was passionate about collecting mussels and snails, but also studied them and their taxonomy scientifically and published around 210 scientific papers.
In 1929 his malacological collection comprised 4.5 million specimens of 40,000 species (31,600 recent and 7,000 fossil). He bequeathed it to the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels (together with its malacological library of around 8000 works, including unique historical specimens), where it forms a substantial part of the 9 million copies today in the third largest malacological collection in the world.
He also identified mollusks that Albert I of Monaco had collected on his oceanographic expeditions and published them in 1912. Overall, in 1895 he described new taxa .
In 1892 he became president of the French Zoological Society. From 1903 to 1904 he was chairman of the Société royale zoologique et malacologique de Belgique. He was commander of the Leopold Order and Knight of the Legion of Honor .
Fonts
- Contribution à la faune malacologique des Îles Açores 1889
- Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea, in: La Faune des colonies françaises, III (fascicule 4) 1929
- Atlas de poche des coquilles des côtes de France (Manche, Océan, Méditerranée) communes, pittoresques ou comestibles, Paris: P. Klincksieck 1897
- with H. Fischer: Contribution à la faune malacologique de l'Indo-Chine, 1906
- Mollusques et brachiopodes 1910
- with Arthur René Jean Baptiste Bavay: Pectinidés, 1912
literature
- Ph. Duchamps: Philippe Dautzenberg (Ixelles, le 20 December 1849 - Paris, le 9 may 1935)., Apex, 1 (2), 1986, pp. 47-62
- Ph. Duchamps: Philippe Dautzenberg, son oeuvre, sa collection., Annales de la Societé royale zoologique de Belgique, 119 (2), 1989, pp. 215-22.
- E. Lamy: Nécrologie Philippe Dautzenberg (1849-1935)., Journal de Conchyliologie, 79, 1935, pp. 182-203
- Paul Pelseneer : Philippe Dautzenberg (1849-1935), Annales de la Societé royale zoologique de Belgique, 66, 1936, pp. 87-91
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dautzenberg, Philippe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian malacologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 1935 |
| Place of death | Paris |