Jean-Henri Fabre
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Jean-Henri Fabre | |
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Born | 21 December 1823 |
Died | 11 October 1915 | (aged 91)
Known for | Souvenirs Entomologiques (texts on insects and arachnids) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Entomology |
Author abbrev. (zoology) | Fabre |
Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (21 December 1823 – 11 October 1915) was a French
Biography
Fabre was born on 21 December 1823 in Saint-Léons in Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an
Fabre was a popular teacher,
Others again have reproached me with my style, which has not the solemnity, nay, better, the dryness of the schools. They fear lest a page that is read without fatigue should not always be the expression of the truth. Were I to take their word for it, we are profound only on condition of being obscure.
His Souvenirs Entomologiques is a series of texts on insects and arachnids. He influenced the later writings of
In one of Fabre's most famous experiments, he arranged pine processionary caterpillars to form a continuous loop around the edge of a pot. As each caterpillar instinctively followed the silken trail of the caterpillars in front of it, the group moved around in a circle for seven days.[4] He further was able to forecast low atmospheric pressure events by observing the behaviours of the caterpillars.[5]
He died on 11 October 1915.[6] In the English speaking world, he became known through the extensive translations of his work by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, carried out from 1912 to 1922.
Works
- Scène de la vie des insectes
- Chimie agricole (textbook) (1862)
- La Terre (1865)
- Le Ciel (textbook) (1867) - Scanned text on Gallica
- Le livre d’histoires, récits scientifiques de l’oncle Paul à ses neveux. Lectures courantes pour toutes les écoles (textbook) (1869) - High definition PDF file
- Catalogue des « Insectes Coléoptères observés aux environs d'Avignon » (1870)
- Les Ravageurs (1870)
- Les Auxiliaires, récits de l’oncle Paul sur les animaux utiles à l’agriculture (1873) High definition PDF file
- Aurore (textbook) (1874) Scanned text on Gallica
- Botanique (textbook) (1874)
- L'Industrie (textbook) (1875)
- Les Serviteurs (textbook) (1875)
- Sphériacées du Vaucluse (1878)
- Souvenirs entomologiques – 1st series (1879) – Scanned text on Gallica
- Etude sur les moeurs des Halictes (1879)
- Le Livre des Champs (1879)
- Lectures sur la Botanique (1881)
- Nouveaux souvenirs entomologiques – 2nd series (1882) – Scanned text on Gallica
- Lectures sur la Zoologie (1882)
- Zoologie (textbook) (1884)
- Souvenirs entomologiques – 3rd series (1886) – Scanned text on Gallica
- Histoire naturelles (textbook) (1889)
- Souvenirs entomologiques – 4th series (1891) – Scanned text on Gallica
- La plante : leçons à mon fils sur la botanique (livre scolaire) (1892) – Scanned text on Gallica
- Souvenirs entomologiques – 5th series (1897) – Scanned text on Gallica
- Souvenirs entomologiques – 6th series (1900) – Scanned text on Gallica
- Souvenirs entomologiques – 7th series (1901) – Scanned text on Gallica
- Souvenirs entomologiques – 8th series (1903)
- Souvenirs entomologiques – 9th series (1905)
- Souvenirs entomologiques – 10th series (1909)
- Fabre's Book of Insects retold from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Fabre's Souvenirs entomologiques Scanned book
- Oubreto Provençalo dou Felibre di Tavan (1909) Text on Jean-Henri Fabre, e-museum
- La Vie des insectes (1910)
- Mœurs des insectes (1911)
- Les Merveilles de l'instinct chez les insectes (1913)
- Le monde merveilleux des insectes (1921)
- Poésie françaises et provençales (1925) (final edition)
- La Vie des araignées (1928)
- Bramble-Bees and Others Scanned book, Project Gutenberg full text
- The Life of the Grasshopper. Dodd, Mead, and company, 1917. ASIN B00085HYR4
- Insect Adventures. Dodd, Mead, 1917. Selections from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Fabre's Souvenirs entomologiques, retold for young people.
- The Life of the Caterpillar. Dodd, Mead, 1919. ASIN B00089FB2A
- Field, Forest, and Farm: Things interesting to young nature lovers, including some matters of moment to gardeners and fruit-growers. The Century Company, 1919. ASIN B00085PDU4 Full text
- This Earth of Ours: Talks about Mountains and Rivers, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Geysers & Other Things. Albert & Charles Boni, 1923. ASIN B000EHLE22
- The Life of The Scorpion. University Press of the Pacific, 2002 (reprinted from the 1923 edition). ISBN 0-89875-842-4
- The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles. Dodd, Mead, 1919. ASIN B000882F2K
- The Mason Bees (Translated) Garden City, 1925. [1] ASIN B00086XXU0; Reprinted in 2004 by Kessinger Publishing;
- Curiosities of Science. The Century Company, 1927. ASIN B00086KVBE
- The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre. Introduction and Interpretive Comments by Edwin Way Teale; foreword to 1991 edition by Gerald Durrell. Published by Dodd, Mead in 1949; Reprinted by Beacon Press in 1991; ISBN 0-8070-8513-8
- The Life of the Spider (1912) (Translated) preface by Maurice Maeterlinck Scanned book, Wikisource full text
- The Life of the Fly. (Translated) Fredonia Books, 2001.
- The Hunting Wasps. University Press of the Pacific, 2002. ISBN 978-1-4102-0007-5
- More Hunting Wasps Scanned book Project Gutenberg full text
- The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects. University Press of the Pacific, 2002.
- Social Life in the Insect World Scanned book, Project Gutenberg full text
- Insect life Scanned book
Legacy
The site of his birth, at St Léons, near Millau is now the site of Micropolis, a tourist attraction dedicated to popularising entomology and a museum on his life.
His last home and office, the Harmas de Fabre in Provence is similarly a museum devoted to his life and work. His insect collection is preserved in the Musée Requien in Avignon. [citation needed]
The French post office commemorated Fabre in 1956 with a stamp depicting a portrait of him.[7]
The 1951 biographical film Monsieur Fabre is devoted to his life.
Blood of the Mantis, a 2009 fantasy novel by the British author Adrian Tchaikovsky is dedicated to Fabre.[8]
Fabre appears as the only major human character in a Caper story parody set on his property in Matthew Bennardo's short story "The Famous Fabre Fly Caper".[9]
References
- ^ Going, Charles Buxton. (1935). "Henri Fabre, Educator and Naturalist". The American Scholar. Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 100-108
- ISBN 978-2-86808-136-0.
Avignon , les bruits de la ville Nommé professeur adjoint de physique et de chimie au lycée d ' Avignon en janvier 1853 , Fabre songe d ' abord à louer une maison à Villeneuvelès
- Catholic World. Vol. 100, pp. 662-670
- ^ Fabre, The Life of the Caterpillar, Chapter III "The Pine Processionary: The Procession".
- ^ Fabre, The Life of the Caterpillar, Chapter IV. "The Pine Processionary: Meteorology".
- New York Times. 12 October 1915. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
Henri Fabre, the entomologist, is dead. He was born in France in 1823. Henri Fabre, whom Victor Hugo described as "The Insects' Homer," ...
- ^ Fabre commemorative postage stamp Archived 11 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 978-1-61614-199-8.
- ^ "The Famous Fabre Fly Caper"
Biographies
- G.V. Legros, (
- E.L. Bouvier, "The Life and Work of J.H. Fabre". Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1916, pages 587–597.
- Augustin Fabre, The Life of Jean Henri Fabre. Dodd, Mead, 1921. Scanned version on the Internet Archive
- Percy F. Bicknell, The Human Side of Fabre. The Century Company, 1923.
- Eleanor Doorly, The Insect Man, William Heinemann, 1936
External links
- Works by or about Jean-Henri Fabre at Wikisource
- Quotations related to Jean-Henri Fabre at Wikiquote
- Data related to Jean-Henri Fabre at Wikispecies
- Media related to Jean-Henri Fabre at Wikimedia Commons
- Works by Jean-Henri Fabre at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Jean-Henri Fabre at Internet Archive
- Works by Jean-Henri Fabre at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Jean-Henri Fabre: e-museum
- The Amazing World of the Insects of Jean-Henri Fabre
- Micropolis In English
- The museum and birth house of Jean-Henri Fabre In French