André Marie Constant Duméril
André Marie Constant Duméril ( born January 1, 1774 Amiens; † August 2, 1860 in Paris) was a French zoologist, professor of anatomy, physiology and pathology. His scientific author abbreviation is Duméril or AMC Duméril.
Life
His parents were Charles (1733-1823) and Rosalie Duméril nee Duval (1736-1829), they had eight children. Duméril studied at the Sorbonne in Paris medicine and was later at his medical school prosector. From the time of his medical studies linked him among other things, a friendship with Pierre Fidele Bretonneau.
After the successful promotion of the cyclostomes dissertation sur la famille the poissons cyclostomes: pour leurs rapports avec les animaux démontrer sans Vertebres; suivie d'un mémoire sur l' anatomie of lamproies in 1803 and his habilitation in 1812 with the title Concours pour la chaire de professeur adjoint de zoology. Dissertation sur les poissons qui se rapprochent le plus des animaux sans Vertebres Duméril was appointed professor of anatomy and physiology at the École de médecine and in 1818 professor of pathology.
In 1803, Bernard Germain Étienne La Cepede resigned as head of Ichthyology and Herpetology at the Muséum national d' histoire naturelle back. Duméril was nominated for this task by Georges Cuvier, he tried to take over this function but only temporarily. As then died in Bernard Germain Étienne La Cepede in 1825 he entered again into this position and handed it to his son in 1857 to Auguste Duméril on.
1825, after the death of Bernard Germain Etienne Médard de La Ville- sur- Illon, comte de La Cepede, was entrusted with the management of Duméril Muséum national d' histoire naturelle in Paris. Together with his assistant Gabriel Bibron he published the Erpétologie générale. Bibron died while this work in 1848.
He was married to Jeanne- Alphonsine - Pernette Delaroche (1778-1852) a sister of François Étienne Delaroche ( 1781-1813 ). Alphonsine -Jeanne - Pernette Delaroche was the daughter of the Geneva physician Daniel Delaroche (1743-1812) she was widowed at age 21 and in his first marriage with Jean Honore dit Horace Say ( 1771-1799 ), professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, Commandant du genie and Chef d' état major général du Caffarelli, married. Horace Say died on the Egyptian expedition of Napoleon Bonaparte between 1798-1801. André Marie Constant Duméril and Alphonsine de La Roche married 1806.
André Dumeril's son Auguste Henri André Duméril (1812-1870) took over his position and led the work with his father at the end.
1857 put Duméril with 83 years all his offices and retired to private life, his son Auguste was his successor as professor of Herpetology and Ichthyology at the Museum. At the age of 86, he died on August 2, 1860 in Paris.
After Duméril named taxa
- Platynereis dumerili Audouin & H. Milne -Edwards, 1834
- Seriola dumerili Risso, 1810
- Callopora dumerilii Audouin & in de Savigny, 1826
- Luperina dumerilii ( Duponchel, 1826)
- Rocinela dumerilii Lucas, 1849
- Sphaeroma dumerilii Leach, 1818
- Cantherines dumerilii Hollard
Works (selection)
- Zoology Analytique, Paris 1806
- Traité élémentaire d' histoire naturelle, ( 4th ed ), Paris 1830
- Analytique Ichthyology (1856 )
- Erpétologie générale ( 1835-50, 9 vols, together with Gabriel Bibron )
- Erpétologie Analytique (1860, 2 vols, the first systematic description of all known reptiles)