Louis Jurine
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| Louis Jurine | |
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| Born | 6 February 1751 Geneva, Republic of Geneva |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Chougny, Kingdom of France |
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| Profession | Surgeon, physician, naturalist |
Louis Jurine (French: [ʒyʁin]; 6 February 1751 – 20 October 1819) was a Swiss physician, surgeon and naturalist mainly interested in entomology. He lived in Geneva.
Surgeon
He studied surgery in Paris and quickly acquired a great reputation for his expertise beyond that which he had in Geneva. He taught courses in anatomy, surgery and zoology at the Académie Nationale de Médecine. He also founded a maternity hospice in 1807 and was awarded prizes for his work on the gasses of the human body, artificial feeding of infants, and pectoral angina.
Collections
Jurine’s collections of Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hemiptera are in the Natural History Museum of Geneva.
Works
- Nouvelle méthode de classer les Hyménoptères et les Diptères. Hyménoptères. Genève (J.J. Paschoud) 1807. (Only 250 copies of this work were issued.) PDF
- Observations sur les ailes des hyménoptères. Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino 24 (1820): 177–214.
- Histoire des monocles, qui se trouvent aux environs de Genève. I-XVI, 1-260, 22 plates, Genève (J.J. Paschoud) 1820. PDF
References
- R. Sigrist and Al, Louis Jurine, surgeon and naturalist (1751–1819), 1999 (with list of works)
