Victor Fatio

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Victor Fatio (born November 28, 1838 in Geneva as Victor Fatio de Beaumont , † March 19, 1906 ibid) was a Swiss zoologist .

Life

Fatio's interest in animals was aroused early on when he was allowed to accompany his father Gustave Fatio de Beaumont on his hunts. He studied physiology in Zurich , Berlin and Leipzig and obtained the title of Ph. D. In 1861 he fell ill with typhus . After his recovery in 1862 he went to Paris and participated in the courses of Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle , where he devoted himself to studying zoology .

When phylloxera was introduced into Switzerland in 1874 , Fatio conducted research and initiated the world's first congress to combat phylloxera, which took place in Lausanne in 1877 . The results of his research and the congress were published in 1878 under the title État de la question phylloxérique en Europe en 1877. He also wrote several publications on phylloxera in Switzerland and Savoy .

Between 1869 and 1904 his standard work Faune des Vertébrés de la Suisse on the vertebrates of Switzerland appeared.

Together with Theophil Studer (1845–1922), Victor Fatio wrote the Catalog des oiseaux de la Suisse ( Catalog of Swiss Birds ), of which only the first three issues appeared from 1889 to 1901. Another 16 issues in this series were published by other authors until 1956.

Animal species such as the albock ( Coregonus fatioi ), the parish ( Coregonus confusus ) or the Alpine vole ( Pitymys multiplex ) were scientifically described for the first time by Victor Fatio.

Fonts

  • Instructions sommaires à l'usage des Commissions centrales d'étude et de vigilance du Phylloxera des départements de la Savoie et de la Haute-Savoie. Chambéry, Ménard, 1877. C'est un opuscule destiné à permettre de reconnaître les premières attaques du phylloxéra.
  • The phylloxera (phylloxera). Brief instructions for use by cantonal and federal experts in Switzerland . Translated into German by H. Krämer. Aarau, 2nd edition 1879
  • Catalog des Oiseaux de la Suisse - 1: Rapaces diurnes / par V. Fatio et Th. Studer. 1889
  • Catalog des Oiseaux de la Suisse - 2: Hiboux et Fissirostres / par V. Fatio et Th. Studer. 1894
  • Of the various modifications dans les formes et la coloration des plumes . (Tiré des Memoires ... de Genève tome XVIII, 2ème partie). 1866
  • The campagnols du bassin du Léman . 1867
  • Importance d'une assurance mutuelle contre le Phylloxera dans le canton de Genève . 1879
  • Faune des Vertébrés de la Suisse - Histoire naturelle des Mammifères . Genève et Bâle. H. Georg, 1869
  • Faune des Vertébrés de la Suisse - Histoire naturelle des reptiles et des batraciens. . Genève et Bâle. H. Georg, 1872
  • Faune des Vertébrés de la Suisse - Histoire naturelle des Poissons. Ie partie . Genève et Bâle. H. Georg, 1882
  • Faune des Vertébrés de la Suisse - Histoire naturelle des Poissons. IIe party . Genève et Bâle. H. Georg, 1890
  • Faune des Vertébrés de la Suisse - Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux Ie Partie . Genève et Bâle. H. Georg, 1899
  • Faune des Vertébrés de la Suisse - Histoire naturelle des Oiseaux IIe Partie . Genève et Bâle. H. Georg, 1904

literature

personal data
SURNAME Fatio, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fatio de Beaumont, Victor (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1906
Place of death Geneva