Paul Henri Fischer

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Paul Henri Fischer is a paleontologist and a zoologist French, born the July 7th 1835 with Paris and dead the November 29th 1893 in this same city.

Wire of a fabric merchant, it is impassioned as of its youth for the Natural history. It makes studies of medicine initially to Bordeaux then with Paris.

In 1861, it enters to the national Muséum of natural history as preparer of Adolphe d' Archiac Desmier of Saint-Simon (1802-1868) to the laboratory of Paléontologie.

Fischer obtains her title of doctor of medicine in 1863 and exerts medicine during ten years while carrying out, in parallel, of the scientific research. In spite of the fact that it is tempted on several occasions to enter to the Natural history museum, it never obtained satisfaction.

He is in particular the author of Recherches on the fossil reptiles of the Southern Africa (1870), Manuel of conchology and conchological paleontology (1880-1887) and of the Catalog and geographical distribution of terrestrial, fluviatile molluscs and sailors of part of Indo-China (1891).

He takes part, of 1880 to 1883, in four study campaigns of sea-beds. Fischer devotes himself mainly to the Invertébré S, current or fossil, and particularly the Mollusque S. It chairs the zoological Société of France in 1886.

Source

Article Paul Henri Fischer in P. Jaussaud and ER. Brygoo (2004), Of the Garden to the Natural history museum in 516 biographies , national Natural history museum of natural history, Paris.

External bonds

Republication of the work " Handbook of conchology and conchological paleontology (3 volumes) " (1880-1887).

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