- Source: List of chairs of the National Museum of Natural History (France)
The following is a list persons who have held the chairs of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. The number of chaired positions, and their subject areas, have evolved since the creation of the original twelve chairs, some being subdivided into two positions and others removed. (Titles translated)
Animal Anatomy
1793 to 1802: Jean-Claude Mertrud
1802 to 1832: Georges Cuvier. This chair was renamed Comparative Anatomy.
Comparative Anatomy
1832 to 1850: Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
1850 to 1855: Georges Louis Duvernoy
1855 to 1868: Etienne Serres
1868 to 1879: Paul Gervais
1879 to 1894: Georges Pouchet
1894 to 1902: Henri Filhol
1903 to 1921: Edmond Perrier
1922 to 1941: Raoul Anthony
1942: Empty
1943 to 1960: Jacques Millot
1961: Empty
1962 to 1984: Jean Anthony
1984 to 2001: Empty
Human Anatomy
1793 to 1832: Antoine Portal
1832 to 1838: Pierre Flourens. This chair was renamed Anatomy and Natural History of Man.
Anatomy and Natural History of Man
1839 to 1855: Etienne Serres. This chair was renamed Anthropology.
Anthropology
1855 to 1892: Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau
1892 to 1908: Ernest Hamy
1909 to 1927: René Verneau
1928 to 1936: Paul Rivet. This chair was renamed Ethnology of Modern Man and Fossilized Man when the Musée de l'Homme was created.
Ethnology of Modern Man and Fossilized Man
1937 to 1940: Paul Rivet
1941 to 1944: Henri Vallois
1945 to 1949: Paul Rivet
1950 to 1959: Henri Vallois
1960 to 1967: Henri Vallois. This chair was renamed Anthropology and Ethnology.
Anthropology and ethnology
1968 to 1970: Robert Gessain. This chair was renamed Anthropology.
Anthropology
1970 to 1979: Robert Gessain
1980 to 1983: Yves Coppens
1983 to 1985: unknown
Comparative Physiology
1837-1838: Frédéric Cuvier
1838-1867: Pierre Flourens. This chair was exchanged with the chair of General Physiology by the faculty of Sciences in Paris.
1868-1879: Claude Bernard
Chemistry
1779 to 1793: Antoine-Louis Brongniart
1804 to 1830: Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin
1830 to 1850: Michel Eugène Chevreul. This chair was renamed Chemistry as Applied to Organic Compounds (Organic Chemistry).
Chemistry as Applied to Organic Compounds
1850 to 1889: Michel Eugène Chevreul
1890 to 1915: Léon-Albert Arnaud
1915 to 1919: unknown
1919 to 1925: Louis-Jacques Simon
1926 to 1927: unknown
1928 to 1936: Richard Fosse. This chair joined with the chair of botany to become the chair of Organic and Physical Chemistry of Plants.
Organic and Physical Chemistry of Plants
1936 to 1940: Richard Fosse
1941: unknown. This chair was renamed Chemistry as Applied to Organic Compounds.
Chemistry as Applied to Organic Compounds
1941 to 1957: Charles Sannié
1958 to 1967: Charles Mentzer
1968: unknown
1969 to 1989: Darius Molho
1989 to 2001: not assigned
General Chemistry
1793 to 1809: Antoine-François Fourcroy
1809 to 1811: unknown
1811 to 1832: André Laugier
1832 to 1850: Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac. This chair was renamed Chemistry as Applied to Inorganic Compounds.
Chemistry as Applied to Inorganic Compounds
1850 to 1892: Edmond Frémy. This chair was removed.
Plants in the Countryside (literal translation)
1793 to 1826: Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu
1826 to 1853: Adrien-Henri de Jussieu. This chair was removed and replaced by the chair of paleontology.
Botany in the Museum
1793 to 1833: René Desfontaines
1833 to 1857: Adolphe Brongniart. This chair was renamed Botany and Plant Physiology.
Botany and Plant Physiology
1857 to 1874: Adolphe Brongniart. This chair was renamed Botany, Organology and Plant Physiology.
Botany, Organology and Plant Physiology
1874 to 1876: Adolphe Brongniart
1876 to 1879: unknown
1879 to 1914: Philippe Van Tieghem
1914 to 1918: unknown
1919 to 1932: Julien Noël Costantin
1933: unknown. This chair was renamed Comparative Anatomy of Current Plants and Fossils and was removed in 1934. It was restored in 1937.
Comparative Anatomy of Current Plants and Fossils
1938 to 1944: Paul Bertrand
1945 to 1958: Auguste Loubière. This chair was changed to Plant Physics.
Plant Physics
1857 to 1897: Georges Ville
1898 to 1925: Léon Maquenne
1926 to 1931: Marc Bridel
1931 to 1934: unknown. This chair was removed in 1935. It was restored in 1959.
1959 to 1960: Pierre Donzelot
1961 to 1962: Charles Sadron. This chair was renamed Biophysics.
Biophysics
1962 to 1975: Charles Sadron
1976 to 2001: Claude Hélène
Botany (Classification and Natural Families)
1874 to 1905: Édouard Bureau. After the creation of the chair of Botany (Classification and Natural Families of Cryptogams), this chair was reduced to the Phanerogams (Spermatophytes).
Botany (Classification and Natural Families of Phanerogams
1906 to 1931: Henri Lecomte
1931 to 1933: Jean-Henri Humbert. This chair was renamed Phanerogamy.
Phanerogamy
1933 to 1957: Jean-Henri Humbert
1958 to 1968: André Aubréville
1969 to 1985: Jean-François Leroy.
1986 to 2001: Philippe Morat
Botany (Classification and Natural Families of Cryptogams
1905 to 1931: Louis Mangin
1932 to 1932: Pierre Allorge. This chair was renamed Cryptogamy.
Cryptogamy
1933 to 1944: Pierre Allorge
1945 to 1973: Roger Heim
1974: unknown
1975 to 1982: Suzanne Jovet-Ast
1983 to 2001: not assigned
Horticulture (Agriculture and Culture of Gardens, Vineyards and Orchards)
1793 to 1824: André Thouin
1825 to 1828: Louis-Augustin Bosc d’Antic
1828 to 1850: Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
1850 to 1882: Joseph Decaisne
1883: unknown
1884 to 1901: Maxime Cornu
1901 to 1919: Julien Costantin
1920 to 1932: Désiré Bois
1932 to 1956: André Guillaumin
1956 to 1956: unknown. This chair was renamed Applied Plant Biology.
Applied Plant Biology
1961 to 1985: Jean-Louis Hamel
Ecology and the Protection of Nature
1955 to 1958: Georges Kuhnholtz-Lordat. This chair was renamed General Ecology.
General Ecology.
1960 to 1962: Paul Rémy
1963 to 1983: Claude Delamare-Deboutteville. In 1983 this chair was transformed into the Service for the Conservation of Nature whose first person in charge was François Terrasson.
Zoology (Quadrupeds, Cetacea, Birds, Reptiles, Fish)
1793 to 1794: Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. This chair was subdivided into two chairs:
Zoology (Mammals and Birds)
1794 to 1841: Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
1841 to 1861: Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
1862 to 1876: Henri Milne Edwards
1876 to 1900: Alphonse Milne-Edwards
1900 to 1906: Émile Oustalet
1906 to 1926: Édouard Trouessart
1926 to 1947: Édouard Bourdelle
1948: unknown
1949 to 1962: Jacques Berlioz
1963: not assigned
1964 to 1985: Jean Dorst
1985 to 2001: not assigned
Zoology (Reptiles and Fish)
1795 to 1825: Bernard Germain Étienne de Laville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède. (N.b. 1825 is the year of Lacépède's death, but actually Duméril replaced him in the chair of zoology as early as 1803 because Lacépède, who was occupied with his political appointments, relinquished his professorship.
1825 to 1857: André Marie Constant Duméril
1857 to 1870: Auguste Duméril
1870 to 1875: Émile Blanchard (who held the chair during a period of transition)
1875 to 1909: Léon Vaillant
1910 to 1937: Louis Roule
1937 to 1943: Jacques Pellegrin
1944 to 1956: Léon Bertin
1957 to 1975: Jean Guibé. This chair was subdivided: The fish were transferred to the chair of Dynamics of Aquatic Populations and became the chair of General and Applied Ichthyology. This chair was then renamed Zoology (Reptiles and Amphibians).
Zoology (Reptiles and Amphibians)
1977 to 1998: Édouard-Raoul Brygoo
1998 to 2001: not assigned
Dynamics of Aquatic Populations
1975: Jacques Daget. This chair was renamed General and Applied Ichthyology.
General and Applied Ichthyology
1976 to 1984: Jacques Daget
1985 to 2001: Marie-Louise Bauchot (de facto in office although not officially recognised)
Zoology (Insects, Worms and Microscopic Animals)
1793 to 1829: Jean-Baptist de Lamarck. With his death, this chair was subdivided into two chairs:
Natural History of Shellfish, Arachnids and the Insects or Articulated Animals
1830 to 1833: Pierre André Latreille
1833 to 1841: Victor Audouin
1841 to 1862: Henri Milne Edwards
1864 to 1894: Émile Blanchard
1895 to 1917: Eugène Louis Bouvier. This chair is then restricted to only insects and is renamed Entomology.
Entomology
1917 to 1931: Eugène Louis Bouvier
1931 to 1950: René Jeannel
1951 to 1955: Lucien Chopard
1956 to 1960: Eugène Séguy
1961: unknown
1962 to 1963: Alfred Balachowsky. This chair is renamed General and Applied Entomology.
General and Applied Entomology
1963 to 1974: Alfred Balachowsky
1975 to 1987: Jacques Carayon
1987 to 2000: Claude Caussanel
2000 to 2001: Loïc Matile
Natural History of Mollusks, Worms and Zoophytes
1830 to 1832: Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
1832 to 1865: Achille Valenciennes
1865 to 1869: Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers
1869 to 1875: Gérard Paul Deshayes
1876 to 1903: Edmond Perrier
1903 to 1917: Louis Joubin. This chair is then restricted to mollusks and zoophytes is renamed Malacology.
Malacology
1917 to 1935: Louis Joubin
1935 to 1942: Louis Germain
1943 to 1970: Édouard Fischer-Piette. This chair is then attached to that of Biology of Marine Invertebrates.
Biology of Marine Invertebrates
1966 to 2001: Claude Lévi
Zoology (Worms and Crustaceans)
1917 to 1937: Charles Gravier
1938 to 1954: Louis Fage
1955 to 1955: Max Vachon. The worms were separated from the arthropods. The chair of Zoology (Arthropods) was then created.
Zoology (Worms)
1960 to 1990: Alain Chabaud
Zoology (Arthropods)
1960 to 1978: Max Vachon
1979 to 2001: Yves Coineau
Entomology of Colonial Agriculture
1942 to 1958 Paul Vayssière. This chair was then renamed Entomology of Tropical Agriculture.
Entomology of Tropical Agriculture
1958 to 1960 Paul Vayssière. This chair was then removed.
Mineralogy
1793 to 1800: Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton
1800 to 1802: Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu
1802 to 1822: René Just Haüy
1822 to 1847: Alexandre Brongniart
1847 to 1857: Armand Dufrénoy
1857 to 1876: Gabriel Delafosse
1876 to 1892: Alfred Des Cloizeaux
1893 to 1936: Alfred Lacroix
1937 to 1967: Jean Orcel
1968 to 1980: Jacques Fabriès
1980 to 2001: not assigned
Geology
1793 to 1819: Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond
1819 to 1861: Louis Cordier
1861 to 1891: Auguste Daubrée
1892 to 1919: Stanislas-Étienne Meunier
1920: unknown
1921 to 1940: Paul Lemoine
1941 to 1962: René Abrard
1963 to 1980: Robert Laffitte
1980 to 2001: Lucien Leclaire
Physics as Applied to the Natural Sciences
1838 to 1877: Antoine-César Becquerel
1878 to 1891: Edmond Becquerel
1892 to 1908: Henri Becquerel
1909 to 1948: Jean Becquerel
1949 to 1977: Yves Le Grand. This chair was then combined with the chair of Physical-Chemistry of Biological Adaptation.
Natural Iconography or the Art of Drawing and Painting all the Things of Nature
1793 to 1822 Gérard van Spaendonck. This chair is then removed.
References
Jean Dorst (dir.), Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 253 p., Fernand Nathan, Paris, 1980, ISBN 2-09-290195-8
Yves Laissus, Le Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Gallimard, Paris, 1995
Stéphane Déligeorges, Alexandre Gady et Françoise Labalette, Le Jardin des Plantes et le Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Monum, Paris, 2004, 64 p, ISBN 2-85822-601-6
Annuaire et sites du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 40 p., MNHN, Paris, rééditions décennales.
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