Jean-Baptiste Voirnot

Jean-Baptiste VOIRNOT is a Lorraine bee-keeper of the end of the 19th century, promoter of the modern Apiculture and inventor of the Voirnot hive still largely used nowadays.

Biography

Jean-Baptiste VOIRNOT is born on April 29th, 1844 with Moivrons (Meurthe-et-Moselle, France) in a modest family. Ordered priest on August 13rd, 1871, it becomes in 1872 priest of Villers-under-Prény, village of 350 inhabitants and parish considered difficult. It is here that it will practice arboriculture and the bee-keeping, and will develop the cubic hive of 33 X 33 cm which bears its name today. Endowed with an extraordinary energy and a whole nature, the Voirnot abbot will publish works of Apiculture and will undertake even several voyages abroad (Belgium, Germany, Algérie) for the promotion of the bee-keeping and his Ruche. The end of its life is unfortunately obscured by the rough fights that in its village the partisans of the Catholic church and the anticlericals deliver themselves. In 1899, its treatment of priest is removed. Patient, it dies out with the old people's home of Ludres on December 30th, 1900, 56 years old.

Works of the Voirnot abbot

eclectic bee-keeping or test of a hive according to all the systems. . - Villers-under-Prény: at the author, 1890. - 149 p., 2 pl.; in-8°.

Conference on the national bee-keeping and the unit of agricultural training . - Troyes: Dufour-Bouquot, 1892. - 11 p.; in-8°.

Culture of the bees put at the range of everyone… , Dijon, 1896. - In 8.

the honey of the bees. Guide of the bee-keeper and the consumer . Conference given to Arlon (Belgium) and the Châlons-on-Saone. -: . - 112 p.; in-16.

Repertory of the bee-keeper creationist and mobilist… - Villers-under-Prény: the author, 1891. - 320 p., fig.; in 16.

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