Paul Henri Fischer

Paul -Henri Fischer ( born February 14, 1898 in Paris, † 14 September 2003 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) was a French zoologist.

Life

Family and Education

A native Parisian Paul Fischer was born into a family of scholars. His grandfather, the doctor, paleontologist, zoologist and malacologist Paul Henri Fischer (1835-1893), founded in 1850, the first malacological journal, namely the Journal de Conchyliologie. His father Pierre Marie Henri Fischer (1865-1916), were among his circle of friends Louis Pasteur and Marie and Pierre Curie, also emerged as malacologist and doctor. His mother Louise (1871-1954), the daughter of the archaeologist and prehistorian Édouard Piette (1827-1906), took over after the death of her husband the management of the Journal de Conchyliologie. Being in this environment Grown expressed early scientific interest, in particular for the Malacology. He accompanied his parents on numerous trips, where he discovered his passion for travel. After the final examination, he turned to the study of natural sciences at the Sorbonne, he is interrupted by his participation in the First World War, in 1922 graduated with the degree of licencié it - sciences.

Paul Fischer married in 1935 Marie -Helene born Droulers, with whom he had the daughter Danielle, who illustrated some of his works, and a son, Jean -Louis, who ran Malacological research in Antarctica. 1963 Fischer moved to Australia in the fall of 2003, he died in his 106th year of life in a nursing home in Sydney.

Professional career

Paul Fischer received after his graduation as an assistant at the Zoological Institute of the Faculty of Sciences at the Sorbonne. In 1944 he became head of paleontological Experimental Research Unit at the École des Mines de Paris. In 1949 he accepted an appointment to the honorary professor of zoology at the University of Saigon, 1952, he returned to the École des Mines de Paris, where he was ( Palaeontological collections ) as the conservator of the Collections Paléontologiques, in 1963 its solemn passing into the retirement. He then worked for the Great Barreer Reef Committee and the Malacological Society of Australia, was appointed to the honorary member, active.

Fischer, who accompanied Jacques Cousteau on his first dive off the coast of Brittany, research trips has also taken to France, Greece, Iceland, Norway ( including Svalbard ), Canada, Australia, Turkey, and the United States. In addition he held until 1979 held the line of the Journal de Conchyliologie.

Paul Fischer, author of over 300 articles from a variety of topics, one of the leading malacologists in the first half of the 20th century. In recognition of his outstanding service to France In 1992 he became Chevalier de la Légion d' Honneur, Officier de la Légion appointed d' Honneur in 1998.

Publications (selection )

  • Vie et moeurs of Mollusks, Payot, Paris 1950
  • Les animaux d' Australie, Payot, Paris 1959
  • Constitution d'une Union Européenne de Malacologie, in: Journal de conchyliologie, Volume 102, P.-H. Fischer, Paris 1962, pp. 114-116.
  • A brief history of the Journal de Conchyliologie, in: Malacological review, Volume 10, Number 1/2, 1977
  • Essai de chronology Humaine - Les temps préhistoriques, Surrey Beatty, Sydney, Australia, 1980
  • La France - Ses rapports avec les autres Historiques Peuples, Surrey Beatty, Sydney, Australia, 1989
  • Petits Problèmes Historiques, Surrey Beatty, Sydney, Australia, 1992
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