Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers

Felix Joseph Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers is a anatomist, a biologist and a zoologist French, born the May 15th 1821 with Montpezat (Lot-et-Garonne) and dead the July 21st 1901 with Fons.

He studies the Médecine with Paris. He attends the courses of Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777-1850) and of Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) and becomes, after his license, his preparer with the Sorbonne. He is internal with the Hôpital Necker near Armand Trousseau (1801-1867). He obtains his title of doctor in 1851 with a thesis entitled Of the Paracentesis of the chest, and pleuritic épanchements which require its employment. In 1852, it must leave its functions after having refused to lend oath after the coup d'etat of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (1808-1873). It obtains the science doctorate the following year.

Lacaze-Duthiers leaves then to the Balearic Islands to study the marine animals there, and is accompanied by his friend Jules Haime (1824-1856). He returns to Paris in 1854 and obtains, thanks to Henri Milne-Edwards a post of professor of Zoologie to the faculty of Lille. The senior of faculty is not other than Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) which recommends it in 1863 as lecturer to the National university. In 1864, it starts to replace Achille Valencian (1794-1865) with the national Muséum of natural history and obtains its pulpit of natural history of the Mollusque S, the Ver S and the Zoophyte S the following year. He is elected with the Academy of Science in 1871. He founds two laboratories devoted to marine biology: the laboratory of Roscoff in 1876 and the Laboratory Arago in 1882 with Banyuls-sur-Mer. Its skin is buried in the enclosure of this establishment.

He is the author of more than 250 publications, in particular:

History of the organization, the development, manners and the zoological reports/ratios of the dental consonant (Paris, 1858).
Natural history of the coral, organization, reproduction, fishing in Algeria, industry and trade (Paris, 1864).
Fauna of the Gulf of Lions: coralliaires, zoanthaires sclerodermés (Paris, 1897).

He is the founder, with his pupil Georges Pruvot (1852-1924), of the review entitled the Archives of zoology experimental and general , this one plays a considerable part in the orientation of the zoological search for its time. It also takes part in the foundation of the French Association for the advance of sciences.

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