Jacques Denis
See also: Jacques Denis (homonymy)
Jacques Denis is a Engineer mines and a arachnologist amateur French, born on October 1st 1902 with Paris and dead the April 24th 1972 with Longeville-on-Sea.
Impassioned by the animals as of its more tender childhood, he is also sensitized with the natural history by his father who had a beautiful collection of shells. As of the seven years age, Jacques Denis knew already some Latin names of species relating to molluscs.
After studies of mining engineer at the technical schools, he works during thirty-five years in the Houillère S of Douchy, Denain and Anzin. As an amateur, it starts to study the Crustacé S décapode S, but there is no time to him. It turns then to the Coléoptère S but the difficulty of the study of the Cucurlionide S and the Staphylinide S rejects it. He thinks of being interested in the spiders, field less chosen by the entomologists amateurs. He traverses, per hour of the pause lunch the countryside neighborhood. He discovers a Argiope whose beauty strikes it:
- … when one day I fell in stop, suffocated of admiration; the alternate bands of black velvet, gold and money of a Argiope gross gleamed in the sunny splendor of a splendid end of summer; … and it was not alone, it was the love at first sight.
He discovers Araignée S in the mines which he attends and then starts to be interested in these animals. He then becomes a famous specialist in particular in the family of the Linyphiidae and makes appear more than 250 work, in particular bearing on the fauna of the the Pyrenees and the Vendée.
Source
- Pierre Bonnet (1973). Jacques Denis - Obituary. Bulletin off the British Arachnological Society , 2 (8) : 173-174.
- Jacques Denis (1949). Memories of a arachnologist: birth of a vocation. the Entomologist, 5 (5/6) : 160-163.
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