Emmanuel de Margerie

Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie ( born November 11, 1862 in Paris, † December 20, 1953 ) was a French geographer, geologist and oceanographer.

Life

Margerie came from the educated middle class in the relationship, there were several diplomats. From 1877 he attended lectures by Albert de Lapparent at the Institut Catholique de Paris and became a member of the French Geological Society. In 1878 he took part in Paris at the first International Geological Congress. He graduated from no formal university studies.

Until 1918 Margerie lived in Paris from self-employment. From 1918 to 1933 he was Director of the Office Géologique de la carte d'Alsace et de Lorraine in Strasbourg, so the geological mapping of Alsace and Lorraine. He was also from 1919 professor at the University of Strasbourg. After his retirement, he remained in Paris.

In 1903 he married Margerie Renée Ferrer.

He was a member and President of often more than fifty academies and scientific societies throughout the world. He mastered German and English and could read largely European languages. Margerie was already fifteen years old in 1877 member of the French Geological Society, whose president he became later.

Work

Margerie published 265 scientific papers, mainly on regional geology, tectonics, and physical geography, geographical and geological mapping. Most of his publications were destined for an international dialogue. They were characterized by a critical analysis and a wide range of topics. Your content is still partially up to date.

His work includes Les dislocations de l' écorce terrestre, 1888, which he laid out with Albert Heim. It was a trilingual work ( English, French and German ) with geologically encyclopedic character. At the International Geological Congress in 1948 it was decided that an appropriate committee to re-edit the work and publishes.

1888 published Margerie with Général Gaston de La Noë ( 1836-1902 ) by the military mapping service Les méthodes photographiques s topographieLes formes du terrain, service Géographique De L' armée ' Paris, 1888. The book posits a connection between the geomorphological manifestations of the geological structure and their genesis.

1896 published Margerie the Catalogue des bibliographies Geologiques.

International reputation received Margerie, as he translated the face of the earth by Eduard Suess in La face de la terre ( 1897-1918 ).

Margerie was also the author of numerous local geological and geomorphological investigations. In 1892, he published in 1893 with Franz Schrader, treatises on the geomorphological structure of the Pyrenees ( 1891 and a geological map of the Pyrenees ). Later he studied the Swiss and French Jura, he published the results 1922 to 1936 in Le Jura.

Margerie also dedicated studies of the geology and morphology of North America, to which he had observed on several trips. From these 1952 Études was américaines. Géologie et géographie.

Margerie Although never visited Asia, but could by bibliographic analyzes also to Asia authoritative publishing. This includes an analysis of the work of Sven Hedin about the history of Tibet, 1928.

1922 Officer of the International Geological Congress, a committee to prepare a geological map of Africa. Margerie was appointed head of this project whether its cartographic experience. The first map sheet was published in 1937 and 1952, the publication was complete. 1931 was published under his direction, the Carte générale bathymétrique of the ocean.

From 1943 to 1948 he published the four-volume Critique et géologie. 1922 and 1936 he wrote l' explication de la carte geologique détaillée de la France- Le Jura '

Honors, Memberships, editorship

According to him, the Margerie Glacier in Alaska is named, which he had visited in 1913.

In 1946 he received the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London and in 1923 Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. He was a foreign member of the Royal Society ( 1931). In 1919 he received the Cullum Medal of the American Geographical Society, and in 1921 the Lyell Medal.

From 1894 he was co-editor of the Annales de Géographie. In 1923 he became a member of the Academie des Sciences. 1939 to 1942 he was president of the Association de français géographes and 1947 to 1952 President of the Comité national de géographie.

He was born on January 15, 1923 correspondent of the Academy of Sciences on January 16, 1939 and its members in the section mineralogy.