Alcide d'Orbigny

Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d' Orbigny ( born September 6, 1802 in Couëron in the department of Loire -Atlantique, near Nantes, † June 30, 1857 in Pierrefitte- sur -Seine, near Paris ) was a French naturalist who in the fields of zoology, paleontology, geology, archeology and anthropology worked. He is considered the founder of micropaleontology. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " ADOrb. ".

Life and work

D' Orbigny spent his youth in La Rochelle, where he studied marine animals. His particular interest was the micro-organisms, which he examined under the microscope. He worked there with researchers from the Muséum National d' Histoire Naturelle ( MNHN ) in Paris together. 1826 published his studies under the title méthodique Tableau de la classe of Céphalopodes, by the class of foraminifera has been introduced.

In 1826 he took part in a seven -year expedition of the MNHN in part to South America, which took him to Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Peru and Bolivia. He returned with a large collection of samples and described his discoveries in Voyage dans l' Amérique Méridionale (9 volumes, 1835-47 ).

In the following years he concentrated on the study of invertebrates in particular the classification and stratigraphic classification of species from the Jurassic and Cretaceous. He defined some geological layer steps ( such as Kimmeridgian, Oxfordian, Callovian to the fine structure of the Jura ), whose names are still used today in the international division levels.

In 1840 he began the systematic description of fossils in France and published La Française Paleontology (8 volumes, 1840-60 ).

In 1849 he published another major work entitled Prodrome de Paleontology Stratigraphique Universal [ ...] ( 3 vols, 1849-52 ), in which he described 18 000 different ways.

In 1853 he was national d' histoire naturelle appointed professor of paleontology at the Muséum.

D' Orbigny died on June 30, 1857 after a year of illness in Pierrefitte- sur -Seine, a suburb of Paris.

He was the genus Orbignya Mart honor. ex Endl. Plant the palm family ( Arecaceae ) named.

Works

• The fossil foraminifera of the Tertiary Basin of Vienna; discovered by Mr. Jos. v. Hauer ... and Alcide d' Orbigny described by / foraminous fossil du Bassin tertiaire de Vienne ( Autriche s ) decouverts par Josh. Hauer et de decrits par Alcide d' Orbigny. Paris 1846 ( digitized )
• Voyage dans l' Amérique méridionale: L' Argentine, La Découvrance Édition, 2006, ISBN 978-2-84265-432-0
• Voyage dans l' Amerique méridionale: Pampas - Patagonie, La Découvrance Édition, 2007, ISBN 978-2-84265-442-9
• Fragment d'un voyage au center de l' Amerique Méridionale: contenant of considerations sur la navigation de l' Amazone et de la Plata, et sur ​​les missions des provinces de Chiquitos anciennes et de Moxos (Bolivia), Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-142-20651-2
• Voyage Dans Les Deux Ameriques: Augment de Renseignements exacts Jusqu'en 1853 Sur Les diffrents Tats You Nouveau Monde, Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-143-91605-2
• Edited by Gilles Béraud, Enric Miret, Daniel Dory: Lettres d' Amérique d' Alcide d' Orbigny, Rumeur des Ages, 2002, ISBN 978-2-84327-074-1
• With Gustave Honor Cotteau, Gaston Saporta: Paleontology Française: Description Of Mollusques Et Rayonnés Fossil, Volume 1, Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-142-82388-7
• With Gustave Honor Cotteau, Gaston Saporta: Paleontology Française: Description Of Mollusques Et Rayonnés Fossil, Volume 2, Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-145-24767-3
• With Gustave Honor Cotteau, Gaston Saporta: Paleontology Française: Description Of Mollusques Et Rayonns Fossil, Volume 3, Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-148-44639-4
• With Gustave Honor Cotteau, Gaston Saporta: Paleontology Française: Description Of Mollusques Et Rayonnés Fossil, Volume 4, Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-144-30934-1
• With Gustave Honor Cotteau, Gaston Saporta: Paleontology Française: Description Of Mollusques Et Rayonnés Fossil, Volume 6, Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-144-19202-8
• With Gustave Honor Cotteau, Gaston Saporta: Paleontology Française: Description Of Mollusques Et Rayonnés Fossil, Volume 7, Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-174-61255-8
• With Gustave Honor Cotteau, Gaston Saporta: Paleontology Française: Description Of Mollusques Et Rayonnés Fossil, Volume 9, Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-142-78430-0
• With Gustave Honor Cotteau, Gaston Saporta: Paleontology Française: Description Of Mollusques Et Rayonnés Fossil, Volume 10, Part 1, Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-146-96923-9
• With Gustave Honor Cotteau, Gaston Saporta: Paleontology Française: Description Of Mollusques Et Rayonnés Fossil, Volume 10, Part 2, Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-149-82105-3
• With Gustave Honor Cotteau, Gaston Saporta: Paleontology Française: Description Of Mollusques Et Rayonnés Fossil, Volume 11, Part 1, Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-146-45677-7