Pierre Jean Édouard Desor
Pierre Jean Édouard Desor ( born February 13, 1811 in Friedrichsdorf, † February 23, 1882 in Nice ) was a German geologist of Huguenot descent who owned a Swiss citizen in 1859.
The Desor family had maintained the French language in their exile in Germany.
Life
Eduard Desor attended the Gymnasium in Hanau and then studied in Giessen, where he became a member of the Corps Hassia, and in Heidelberg jurisprudence, and went in 1832, as one police was investigating him for his participation in the Hambach Festival, to Paris, where he is private lessons by beat. His interest now was in the sciences and he began Carl Ritter's " geography " to translate into French. In Paris he attended the lessons of the geologist Elie de Beaumont. From Paris he went to Bern to the family of the liberal-minded physician Philipp Friedrich Wilhelm Vogt, whom he knew from pouring forth. Also in Bern is nourished by Desor private lessons. 1837 investigated the scientist Louis Agassiz, who worked on a great work on the fossilized fish, a secretary. Vogt recommended Desor, and this then moved on to Neuchâtel. As secretary of Agassiz himself Desor worked in the natural sciences.
He then participated in Agassiz ' research and ascended in 1841 along with James David Forbes, the virgin. He visited Scandinavia to study there boulders. In 1847 he proposed the Dan - stage ( Danian ), but he was still turned to chalk. Today, the Danian is the lowest level of the Paleocene ( Paleogene ).
Desor 1847 went to the U.S., got a job in the Coast Survey, and took part in the geological survey of the mineral districts of Lake Superior and the State of Pennsylvania. In Michigan, a lake and Mount Desor are named after him.
In 1852 he was appointed his brother Fritz, who had settled as a physician in Boudry, in Neuchâtel, and returned to Neuchâtel. At the request of the naturalist Henri Ladame and Louis Coulon, he was assigned there immediately with scientific lectures at the Auditoires that matched a continuation of the high school. He was involved in the founding of the University of Neuchâtel (1866 ) and took over until 1868 as professor of geology. In 1859, he came into use in Les Ponts- de -Martel ( Canton of Neuchâtel ). In the constituency, the town of Neuchâtel, he was elected to the cantonal parliament. He applied for the restoration of the Academy, at whose head he had continuously. He was also appointed member of the Board of Governors of the Polytechnic and elected to the Federal Parliament. From 1866-1869 he represented the canton of Neuchâtel in the Senate and from 1869-1875 in the National Council, 1873 he was the National President.
In the winter of 1863-1864 he undertook with Arnold Escher von der Linth and Charles Frédéric Martins a scientific trip to Algeria and the Sahara. In 1866 he presided at the first anthropological congress in Neuchâtel.
Exhibition
- 2011: 200th Birthday: Celts, sea urchins, glacier fleas. Edourd Desor, museum Seulberg with backing by Erika Dittrich and Thomas Klein
Works
- De l' orography dans ses rapports avec des Alpes la géologie ( Neuchâtel 1862)
- Geological Alps Tours ( German of Carl Vogt, 2nd edition, Frankfurt 1847)
- Synopsis of the fossil Echinides (Paris 1858)
- Geological description of the Neuchâtel Jura
- About the mountaintop in the Alps ( Wiesbaden 1865)
- Echinologie helvétique ( with Loriol, Wiesbaden 1869-72 )
- From Sahara and Atlas ( four letters to Justus von Liebig ) ( Wiesbaden 1865)
- Monograph on the lake dwellings of Lake Neuchâtel ( German Mayer, Frankfurt 1866)
- Le bel âge du bronze lacustrine en Suisse ( with Favre, Paris 1874).