Sir John Lubbock, 1st baron Avebury , born with London the April 30th 1834 and dead the May 28th 1913, was a prehistorian and a British Naturaliste , just as a banker and a politician.
Biography
This sons of Sir John William Lubbock studied with the Collège of Eton as of the 11 years age for then joining the bank of his/her father. Elected official twice at the Parliament like deputy of Maidstone, it had an influential political career where it presented several reform projects, while cultivating a passion for anthropology and the natural science. He was named 1st baron Avebury in 1900.
Its written work had much influence in the fields of the Archéologie and the Entomologie. It published approximately came-five books and more than one hundred of scientific articles. Excel popularizer, it presented many conferences on subjects such as geology, anthropology, biology and even the economy. It carried its studies in particular on manners of the prehistoric man . In the Origins of Civilization , it analyzes manners of various people to render comprehensible their natures and their social systems.
Its book the prehistoric man gives many details and statistics on the primitive populations. It presents to it a vision which takes as a starting point Charles Darwin. To support its opinions, it makes use of the archaeological discoveries made throughout the world and of the analysis of the habits of primitive companies which it called wild modern and which still lived in Scandinavia. He considered that the prehistoric cultures belonged to human development. He invented the words Neolithic Paléolithique and to make the distinction between these two periods of the Âge of the stone.
It was also interested in the behavior of the social Hyménoptère S such as the ants and the bees. Its book Ants, Bees, and Wasps (Of the Ants, the Bees and the Wasps) reports its entomological observations.
He writes even a philosophical and spiritual book on the search of happiness where he speaks in praise of the virtues and beauties which surround us, happiness to live .
Quotations
- I think that one does not believe in the intelligence of the animals, because one always tries to transmit our ideas to them, instead of managing to develop a code so that they communicate theirs to us.
- the important one is not as much as one should teach with each child, but whom one should give to each child the desire to learn.
Sources
- Clark J.F. McDiarmid (1997). “The ants were duly visited”: Judicious Making off John Lubbock, scientific naturalism and the judicious off social insects. British Newspaper for the History off Science, 30 : 151 - 176.
Works
- Lubbock, Sir John, Prehistoric Times . London, Williams and Norgate, 1865.
- Lubbock, Sir John, The Origin off Civilization and the primitive Condition off Man . New York, Appleton and Co., 1871.
- Lubbock, Sir John, Origins of Civilization , transl. Edmond Barber. Paris, To germinate Baillière, 1873.
- Lubbock, Sir John, the prehistoric man , transl. Edmond Barber. Paris, To germinate Baillière, 1876.
Lire this work. - Lubbock, Sir John, the primitive Condition of the Man , 1870
- Lubbock, Sir John, Ants, Bees, and Wasps . London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1902.
- Lubbock, Sir John, The Pleasures off Life , New York, Macmillan, 2 vol. 1887-89.
Lire the English text pertaining to the public domain - Lubbock, Sir John, On the Directions, Instincts and Intelligence of the Animals , 1888
- Lubbock, Sir John, happiness to live . 11th ED. france, Paris, Alcan, 1909.
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