Roger Heim

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Roger Jean Heim (born February 12, 1900 in Paris , † September 17, 1979 ibid) was a French mycologist . From 1951 to 1965 he was director of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " R.Heim ".

Heim studied chemical engineering at the École Centrale Paris, but soon turned to mycology with his doctorate in 1931 (on the Inocybe ) and was also at Uppsala University . He worked in the laboratory for cryptogams of the Museum of Natural History in Paris, from 1933 as a sous-director. During the Second World War he was in the Resistance and from 1943 in various concentration camps ( Buchenwald , Mauthausen , Gusen ), where he was tortured and about which he published memoirs. He received the Croix de guerre and the Resistance medal . After the war he became a professor at the Natural History Museum and in 1951 its director.

In 1954 he chaired the 8th International Congress of Botanists in Paris. In 1948 he became president of the Société botanique de France .

He was involved early on in ecological issues, in environmental protection as the basis for the preservation of biodiversity. 1954 to 1958 he was President of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In 1972 he wrote the preface to the French translation of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson and in 1969 to Avant que Nature ne meurt by Jean Dorst and published a collection of texts in 1973 ( L'Angoisse de l'an 2000 ).

As a mycologist he dealt with milk lice ( Lactarius ), crack fungi ( Inocybe ) and deaf fungi ( Russula ) and with exotic fungi such as Termitomyces and their symbiosis with termites .

Together with R. Gordon Wasson , he also dealt with psychoactive mushrooms from Mexico (genus Psilocybe ), cultivated them and made samples available to pharmaceutical companies (including Albert Hofmann at Sandoz in Basel, who isolated and characterized psilocybin and psilocin from them).

He was a member of the Academie des Sciences (1946), the Académie d'agriculture, the Académie d'architecture, the Royal Society of Edinburgh as well as the American Philosophical Society and the Leopoldina . In 1958 he received the Darwin Wallace Medal , and in 1973 he became an honorary member of the Mycological Society of America . He was a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor and Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

In 1935 he married the Romanian mycologist Panca Eftimiu. He is the father of the professor of paleoanthropology at the Natural History Museum in Paris Jean-Louis Heim .

Fonts

  • Le genre Inocybe, Encycl. Mycol. 1 , Paris: P. Lechevalier 1931
  • Fungi Iberici: observations sur la flore mycologique Catalane , Barcelona 1934
  • Les Lactario-Russulés du domaine oriental de Madagascar , Paris, Laboratoire de Cryptogamie du Muséeum 1938
  • La reproduction chez les plantes , Paris, Armand Collin 1939
  • Études descriptives et expérimentales sur les Agarics termitophiles Africains , Paris, Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences 1940
  • La sombre route: souvenirs des camps d'extermination Allemands , Paris, Jodé Corti 1947
  • Les Champignons: tableaux d'un monde étrange , Éditions Alpina 1948
  • Destruction et Protection de la Nature , Paris: Armand Collin 1952
  • Un Naturaliste Autour du Monde , Paris: Albin Michel 1955
  • Les Champignons d'Europe , Paris: N. Boubée, 2 volumes 1957, 2nd edition at the Fondation Singer-Polignac in one volume 1969
  • with R. Gordon Wasson: Les champignons hallucinogens du Mexique, études ethnologiques, taxinomiques, biologiques, physiologiques et chimiques . Paris: Editions du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 1958
  • with Roger Cailleux, Pierre Thévenard, Robert Gordon Wasson: Nouvelles Investigations sur les Champignons hallucinogènes , Éditions du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris 1965
  • Les Champignons Toxiques et Hallucinogènes , Paris: Boubée & Cie. 1978
  • L'angoisse de l'an 2000, quand la nature aura passé, l'homme la suivra , Paris: Éditions de la fondation Singer-Polignac, 1973
  • Termites et Champignons: Les champignons termitophiles d'Afrique Noire et d'Asia meridionale , Paris: Boubée 1977

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Roger Jean Heim. In: Member History. American Philosophical Society, accessed December 13, 2019 .
  3. ^ Member entry of Roger-Jean Heim (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 13, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Home, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Home, Roger Jean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1979
Place of death Paris