Louis Jurine
Louis Sébastien Jurine ( born February 6, 1751 Geneva, † October 20, 1819 in Chougny, today Vandœuvres ) was a Swiss physician and naturalist.
Life and work
He was the son of a weaver Sébastien Jurine (1722-1779) and his wife Anne Esther Favre both been married since 1745. He had a younger sister Catherine Sébastien Jurine ( 1755-1841 ).
L. Jurine 14 August 1774 Louise Pernette Bonnet ( 1744-1812 ) was married since Sunday. After studying medicine in Paris and Geneva, he obtained his doctoral degree in 1773. and was recorded in the same year in the Geneva College Surgeons. He worked both as a researcher and scholar but also practitioners. 1797 to 1798 he was professor at the Academy of Berne, 1802-1809 Honorary Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, Professeur d'Anatomie et de chirurgie Honoraire de l' Académie de Genève and from 1809 to 1819 professor of zoology at the Academy of Geneva, Académie de Zoology de Genève.
Apart from trips to Paris, where he gave the writer Anne Louise Germaine de Staël at the birth of their children and in her last illness medical care, he lived and practiced only in Geneva. In 1807 he founded in Geneva Women's Hospital, Hospice de la maternité.
As a supporter of Bonnet's school, Jurine also dealt with scientific studies. These included the collection, observation and research of fish and insects in the Canton of Geneva. Jurines collection is kept in the Muséum d' histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève. Among the taxa described Jurine scientific, include the wasp genus Ampulex and two endemic in the Lake Geneva coregonids, the FERA and the Gravenche.
As a naturalist pointed Jurine in 1794, the importance of hearing for the orientation of the bats after. In collaboration with his daughter Christine Etiennette Pernette Jurine (1776-1812), he developed 1807 based on the wing shape classification of Hymenoptera ( Hymenoptera ), studied the plankton of Lake Geneva and inventoried its fish.
Jurine published his studies frequently in the Journal de Mines, in the Memoires de l' Academie of Turin and in the Mémoires de physique et d' histoire naturelle de Genève. In 1798 he published his first scientific paper Mémoire sur cette question: Détermier Quels avantages la médecine de peut retirer découvertes modern sur l'art de la connaitre pureté de l'air par les differents eudiomètres. In this document, which was approved by the Société royale de Médecine (see also Académie nationale de Médecine ) awarded in Paris to Jurine dealt with the changes of air through the breathing process and the types of gas in the intestinal canal.
On October 20, 1819 Louis Jurine died as a result of coronary heart disease.
Ehrentaxa
- Apherusa jurinei, Milne Edwards, ( 1830)
- The genus of the silver slits ( Jurinea Cass. ) Was named after his son André Jurine ( 1780-1807 ), also a physician and naturalist, named.
Works
Literature on Louis Jurine
- JS Ersch and JG Gruber ( ed.): General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts processed in alphabetical order of authors mentioned. Second Section. H -N. Twenty-ninth part. Brockhaus. Leipzig, 1852.
- Sigrist, R.; Barras, V.; Ratcliff, M.: Louis Jurine, surgeries et naturaliste ( 1751-1819 ). Bibliothèque d' Histoire des Sciences, Chêne -Bourg: 1999 Archives of Natural History. Volume 28, Page 150-151