Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud

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With the remainder, though I described for France only a much greater number of species than Muller and Schroeter ent did not make connoître for whole Europe, and three times as much as Geoffroy and Poiret did not observe of it in the surroundings of Paris, I am convinced that it still remains in this kind many discoveries to make. J.P.R. Draparnaud (in Natural history of Molluscs, 1805)

Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud is a Naturaliste, malacologist and Botaniste French, considered as the father of the Malacologie continental Frenchwoman. He was born the June 3rd 1772 with Montpellier and died the 12 Pluviose An XII (1804) in the same city. He was professor of medicine in pathology and nosology with the Medical college of Montpellier.

As of the 15 years age, it supports a Latin thesis in philosophy at the royal Company of Sciences which was worth all the honors to him. But the vicissitudes related to the Revolution carried out it until in prison where it spent thirteen months.

In the Year VII (1799), it supports its thesis of medicine.

In the Year IX (1801), it is named professor at the central School with Montpellier. He then publishes several memories whose Tableau of terrestrial and fluviatile Molluscs which gives a report on 132 species S divided into 18 kind S. It is the first work of importance, true preamble of terrestrial and fluviatile malacology.

He marries, the 8 meadow year X (1802), Marie-Anne-Gabrielle Seneaux, girl of the doctor Jean Seneaux, professor at the Medical school and which will preface its posthumous work.

In the Year XII (1804), it leaves the central School by accepting, for its misfortune, the title of professor and conservative at the Medical school, traps tended by a former friend Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756 - 1832), chemistry teacher at the Medical school and become his enemy; indeed, it loses all its functions some time later under the terms of a new payment. Overpowered by the disease, its dismissal, and even more the loss of his/her child the 10 nivôse, it dies the next month.

His/her brother is the dramatic poet Victor Draparnaud (1773-1833).

Malacology

Its malacologic research primarily concentrated in the area montpellieraine, the Drome and the Tarn from where it described many species. After its work of 1801 which appears little of time after the work of Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755 - 1834), it is especially its posthumous work, eight year old fruit of work which, in 1805, proposes for the first time in France, a fauna of continental molluscs. Those are described in the rules clearly and exactitude making of this work a masterly work in its time. The very faithful illustrations are of its pupils Jean Pierre A. Sylvestre de Grateloup (1782 - 1861) and Ducluzeau and were engraved by Lambert and Chailly. It was in relation to Claude Sionnest (1749 - 1820) of Lyon.

Its Natural history of terrestrial and fluviatile Molluscs of France thus counts 173 species divided into 19 kinds, that is to say 41 species moreover than its Table. He recognizes 1 thus Nerita , 17 Cyclostoma , 3 Valvata , 11 Planorbis , 3 Ancylus , 8 Lymneus , 4 Physa , 3 Auricula , 2 Succinea , 20 Pupa , 9 Clausilia , 8 Bulimus , 58 Helix , 3 Vitrina , 1 Testacella , 11 Limax , 6 Cyclas , 3 Unio and 2 Anodonta . He is the creator of the kind Clausilia .

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