Philibert Guinier

Biography

Professor Philibert Guinier, director of the national school of water and forests (ENEF) , become the national school of the agricultural engineering, water and the forests (ENGREF) in 1965 by the fusion of the national school of National Forestry Commission of Nancy (1824) and of the national school of the agricultural engineering, founded with Paris in 1919 - , president of the Academy of agriculture, member of the Academy of Science in the section of rural economy, taught the forest botany of 1903 with 1941.

Its former students had given him the affectionate nickname of “the she-goat”.

Philibert Guinier analyzed the soils and explained starting from the history of their development, how the landscapes had been gradually constituted. Thanks to his friend Lucien Cuénot, he had written, in 1912, of the articles foreseeing what the laws of heredity and the selection could bring to management forest settlements.

Philibert Guinier wrote: “the forester is a conservative of natural wealth whose its contemporaries tend to misuse. The tree is an living being, the forest is an association of living beings which react all and sundry. Forest sciences rest in the forefront on the natural science. To include/understand the forest and to intervene in its life, it is necessary to be a biologist” (speech of reception to the new pupils of the ENEF in 1932).

The university of Wood (ESB) was then founded under the impulse of Philibert Guinier with a double aim:

to give a specialized technical formation a little pushed to wire of owners and industrialists of wood, to young people curious about this material making or having made higher learning in faculty in addition or in an university, or to forest officers of Overseas benefitting from a leave in France;
to supplement theoretical knowledge specific to the material wood, of users already in the working life, working for example with the SNCF for the cross-pieces of railroad, at the postal and telecommunications authorities for posts of line, at companies of electricity (EDF did not exist yet), in the services of the armament, the genius or shipyard; finally some foreigners come to improve in France.

Philibert Guinier is the son-in-law of the botanist and political Georges Monnier, the brother-in-law of the philosopher Jacques Rennes and the father of the scientist André Guinier.

Works

Atlas of the trees, shrubs, shrubs and sub-shrubs growing spontaneously or naturalized in France and in the areas bordering (1912)
teaching at the School on National Forestry Commission and the forest career (1932)
Research station and forest experiments of the National school of National Forestry Commission: twelve businesss year (1920-1931) (1932)
forest Ecology
Problema of the plantación boscosa in República argentina (1939)
Formation and structure of wood (1942)
the forest of Gabon (1943) Foreword of forest P. Guinier
Technical. the tree and the forest - wood - treatment of the forest - protection, improvement, reconstitution, creation, installation and use of the forest - forest management. (1947) with A. Oudin and L. Schaeffer
wood (1949) Foreword of Technical P. Guinier
forestiere (1951)
Rene Mayor, his life and his work (1952)
Sylviculture (1952) Foreword of P. Guinier
Catalog of the species cultivated in Arboretum of the Bars (1954) Foreword of P. Guinier
North-African Forestry economics (1958) Foreword of P. Guinier
Obituary of Paul Boudy, French forest Review, n° 3,1958, pp. 219-222
the forest, this unknown factor (1961)
Technical forest (1963)
taught forest ecology by Philibert Guinier. This work is based on the notes of course of two former students of Philibert Guinier

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