Ferdinand André Fouqué

Ferdinand André Fouqué ( born June 21, 1828 in Mortain, Manche, † March 7, 1904 ) was a French geologist.

At age 21, he was admitted to the École Normale in Paris and held there from 1853 to 1858, the Office of the Administrator of the scientific collections. In 1877 he became professor of natural history at the Collège de France in Paris, and was in 1881 elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences. 1899 elected him the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome for foreign members.

As a stratigraphical geologist, he supported the geological survey of France, but then he turned his attention to the study of volcanic phenomena and earthquakes, on minerals and rocks, and he led in France, a modern petrographic methods.

Noteworthy are his studies of eruptive rocks of Corsica, Santorini, Methana and other places, his research on the artificial reproduction of eruptive rocks, and his treatise on the optical properties of the feldspars, but the best known was his community work with his friend Auguste Michel - Lévy.

Works

• Santorini et ses eruptions. 1879

Michel - Lévy:

• Mineralogy micrographique, Roches eruptive françaises. (2 vols, 1879)
• Synthèse of Minèrraux et des roches. (1885 )