Adolphe d\' Archiac

Etienne Jules Adolphe Desmier of Saint-Simon, Viscount of Archiac , born with Rheims the September 23rd 1802 and died in Paris the December 24th 1868, is a geologist and paleontologist French.

Biography

Raised with Mesbrecourt (Aisne), it makes its studies with Saint-Cyr military school. It serves as officer of Cavalerie during nine years until in 1830, date on which it is withdrawn. In 1828, it publishes a novel, Zizim, or the Knights of Rhodos, historical novel of XVe century .

Its principal center of interest becomes the Géologie then. It is with Jacques Boucher of Perthes the true founder of prehistoric geology in France. Its first scientific publications relate to the layers Tertiaire and Crétacé in France, Belgium and England where he studies in particular the geographical distribution and stratigraphic of the Fossile S. Later, he continues with the formations of the Carbonifère, the Dévonien and the Silurien.

Its major work is the Histoire of progress of the geology of 1834 has 1859 , published in eight volumes of 1847 with 1860. In 1853, the Geological Society off London decrees the Médaille Wollaston to him. The same year, it publishes a monograph with Jules Haime on the nummulitic formation of the India. In 1851, he becomes professor of Paléontologie to the national Muséum of natural history and in 1857 he is elected member of the Academy of Science. On the end of its career, it publishes inter alia: stratigraphic Paleontology (3 volumes, 1864 - 1865), Geology and paleontology (1866), like several paleontological contributions to the minor Asia of Petr Aleksandrovitch Tchikhatcheff (1866).

Single person, suffering of a severe depression, it commits suicide the midnight supper of Christmas 1868 while throwing himself in the the Seine, after having resigned of the Academy of Science. One did not find his corpse, with Meulan, that on May 30th, 1869.

See too

  • One will take care not to confuse it with Olivier d' Archiac (1811-1855) which, attached to the embassy of France with Saint-Pétersbourg in 1837, was the witness of Georges d' Anthès at the time of sound duel with Pouchkine, duel after which this last lost the life.

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