Armand David
Jean Pierre Armand David ( born September 27, 1826 in Espelette near Bayonne, † November 10, 1900 in Paris), including Pere David, was a French naturalist with extensive knowledge in geology, mineralogy, ornithology, zoology and botany. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " David ". He belonged to the Catholic Order of the Vincentians.
Biography
In 1862 he wanted to start a school for young Chinese in Beijing, shifted his activities but soon on the zoology and put collections on behalf of the Muséum National d' Histoire Naturelle ( Natural History Museum ) in Paris. In 1872 he was in the area of Jehol, where the range of his excursions corresponds to the foot of the Beijing- Moscow. 1868 led his way through the Mongolian Plateau to Kuku- khoto and then to the Hwang Ho. In 1874, he traveled for 25 months at the north-eastern boundary of the Tibetan Plateau. For health reasons he had to leave China.
He sent among nuclei of the handkerchief tree ( Davidia involucrata ), which was later named after him in Paris. The Englishman Ernest Henry Wilson documented the tree first in the late 19th century in China; Père David discovered him there again, collected the nut -like seeds and brought them to Paris. Also the David Hirsch ( Elaphurus davidianus ) was named after him; In 1865, he climbed despite the ban on the wall of the imperial Nan Hai - Tsu - parks in Beijing and watched as probably first Europeans these deer. By bribing the guards David came to two skins, which he sent to Europe, where the zoologist Henri Milne -Edwards described the way. In March 1869 David saw the first Europeans killed a giant panda ( Ailuropoda melanoleuca ), which he described scientifically. Together with Émile oustalet he wrote Les Oiseaux de la Chine ( 2 vols, 1877), in which he remarked that he had observed 772 species of birds; he sent a total of more than 1,300 brats of 470 species of birds at the museum in Paris.
After David Armand pine, Pinus armandii Franch were. named, their natural area of Tibet via West China dates to Korea, the Davids - lily, the dove tree Davidia involucrata and today most commonly planted in gardens type of butterfly lilac, buddleia davidii.