Aloïs Humbert

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Aloïs Humbert

Aloïs Humbert (22 September 1829 – 13 May 1887) was a Swiss naturalist and paleontologist who specialized in the study of myriapods. He also described new vertebrates (fishes, reptiles, mammals), molluscs and flatworms.

Biography

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Humbert was born in Geneva on 22 September 1829, the son of Augustin Pyramus Humbert, a notary and politician, and Suzanne Charlotte Du Roveray.[1] He studied natural sciences at the Academy of Geneva and at the University of Montpellier. In 1854, Humbert began working as a curator at the Natural History Museum of Geneva, where he worked closely with François Jules Pictet.[1] He was involved in scientific missions to Ceylon and Lebanon; his work focused in particular on the fossils of Lebanon, the fauna of Ceylon, myriapods and geography.[1] While in the Middle East, Humbert made important discoveries of fossil fish.[2]

Humbert was appointed substitute teacher at the Academy of Geneva in 1864, the same year he married Jeanne Françoise Adélaïde Rochette, daughter of the Mayor of Bernex, Jean François Rochette.[1] He worked on the catalogues of the Natural History Museum and the Bibliothèque de Genève.[1] In 1876, on behalf of the recently founded Red Cross, Humbert organized a relief society for wounded soldiers in Montenegro during the Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1876–1878).[1] He died in Onex on 13 May 1887, aged 57.[1]

Selected works

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  • Monographie des chéloniens de la mollasse suisse, 1856.
  • Description de quelques espèces nouvelles de planaires terrestres de Ceylan, 1862 – Description of some new species of terrestrial planarians from Ceylon.
  • Essai sur les myriapodes de Ceylan, 1865 – Essay on myriapods of Ceylon.
  • Nouvelles recherches sur les poissons fossiles du Mont Liban, 1866 (with François Jules Pictet) – New research on fossil fish from Mount Lebanon.
  • Description de divers myriapodes du Musée de Vienne, 1869 – Description of various myriapods at the Vienna Museum.
  • Études sur les myriapodes et les insectes, 1870 (with Henri de Saussure) – Studies of myriapods and insects.
  • Description du Niphargus puteanus var. Forelii, 1876 – On Niphargus puteanus.
  • Myriapodes des environs de Genève, 1893 (posthumous release, published by Henri de Saussure) – Myriapods in the vicinity of Geneva.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Philip Rieder: "Aloïs Humbert" in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 23 February 2009.
  2. ^ Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Science ..., Volumes 70-72 by Swiss Society for Natural Sciences

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