Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure

Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure ( born November 27, 1829 in Geneva, † February 20, 1905 in Geneva) was a Swiss mineralogist and entomologist.

He studied at first at the Geneva Academy with Pictet de la Rive, before he went to Paris at the Sorbonne and in 1852 there was a licentiate. In 1854 he received his doctorate from the University of Giessen.

Between 1854 and 1856 he made with Henri Peyrot a two-year research trip to the Caribbean and especially to Mexico. He made numerous zoological, geological, hydrological and archaeological observations and put on large sample collections, he auswertete in subsequent years. He also described the political events, such as an American annexation attempt in Cuba and the Mexican Civil War. Since that trip, he also wrote articles for the Journal de Genève. On his return journey he visited the United States, where he met who was also born in Switzerland Louis Agassiz and the physicist Joseph Henry.

After his return to Geneva, he soon became a world-renowned entomologist specializing in Hymenoptera and Spring terror. He handed over his insect collections the Geneva Museum of Natural History ( Musee d'Histoire naturel ). He also had a farm at the foot of Voirons and suggested various agronomic improvements.

In 1858 he was co-founder of the Geographical Society of Geneva, which he was president some years. In 1866 he received the French Legion of Honor for his scientific and agronomic performance. In 1872 he was made an honorary member of the Entomological Society of London.

He was the grandson of Horace - Bénédict de Saussure. His son was the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.

Works

  • Henri de Saussure: Etudes sur la famille the vespides. J. Cherbuliez, Geneva and V. Masson, Paris 1852-1858 ( 3 volumes).
  • Henri de Saussure: Mélanges hyménoptérologiques. In: Mémoires de la Société de physique et d' histoire naturelle de Genève. Vol 14, 1855, pp. 1-67; Vol 17, 1864, pp. 129-244.
  • Henri de Saussure: Essai d'une faune du Mexique avec la myriapodes the description de quelques espèces des autres parties de l' Amérique. Fick, Geneva 1860.
  • Henri de Saussure: Note sur quelques mammifères du Mexique. In: Revue et Magasin de zoology, Paris, 23 years, pp. 5-494.
  • Henri de Saussure: Coup d' oeil sur l' hydrology du Mexique, principalement de la partie orientale: accompagné de quelques observations sur la nature de ce pays physique. Fick, Geneva, 1862.
  • Henri de Saussure and Jules Sickle: Catalogue des espèces de l' ancien genre Scolia, contenant les diagnoses, descriptions et les la synonymy of espèces avec des remarques explicatives et critiques = Catalogus specierum generis Scolia (sensu latiori ). H. Georg Geneva and V. Masson, Paris, 1864
  • Henri de Saussure: Hymenoptera. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1868.
  • Henri de Saussure and A. Humbert: Etudes sur les myriapodes.Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, 1872.
  • Henri de Saussure: Synopsis of American wasps. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1875.
  • Henri de Saussure: prodrome of oedipiens: insectes de l' Ordre des orthopterous. H. Georg, Geneva, 1888.
  • Henri de Saussure: Histoire naturelle of hyménoptères. Imprimerie nationale, Paris 1890-1892 ( 3 volumes).
  • Henri de Saussure: Histoire naturelle of orthopterous. Imprimerie nationale, Paris 1895.
  • Henri de Saussure and tithables: Myriapodes de Madagascar. Imprimerie nationale, Paris 1902

Literature

  • L. Léjéallien: Henri de Saussure. In: Journal de la Société des Américanistes, Volume 3, No. 1, 1906, pp. 97-99. (French)
  • E.V.: Henri de Saussure. In: Journal de Genève, February 23, 1905, p 2 ( Nekrologie, French)
  • Mineralogist
  • Entomologist
  • Member of the Legion of Honor
  • Swiss
  • Born in 1829
  • Died in 1905
  • Man
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