Joachim Barrande
Joachim Barrande | |
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palaeontology | |
Author abbrev. (botany) | Barrande |
Joachim Barrande (11 August 1799 – 5 October 1883) was a French
Career
Barrande was born at
The publication in 1839 of Murchison's
In recognition of his important researches the
Barrande died at
In 1884 the Barrande Rocks in Prague was named in honor of the scientist and massive plaque with Barrande's name was added at the rocks. On 24 February 1928, a district of Prague, Barrandov, was named after him.
Opposition to evolution
Barrande was an advocate of the theory of catastrophes (as taught by Georges Cuvier). He later opposed Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. He rejected transmutation of species. He also wrote a five-volume book on the defense of his theory of so-called "colonies", presuming that the cause of the presence of fossils typical for one layer surrounded by those typical for another is atectonical. He tended to name those colonies with names of his scientific adversaries.
His anti-evolutionary views were criticized by geologist Henry Hicks who commented that "Barrande is well known to be a determined opponent to the theory of evolution, and doubtless this strong bias has prevented him from seeing and accepting many facts which would otherwise, to so keen and careful an observer, have seemed inconsistent with such strong views."[3]
References
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
- ^ Hicks, Henry. (1874). M. Barrande and Darwinism. Nature 9: 261–262.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Barrande.
- "Joachim Barrande". PMID 17782936.
- "Joachim Barrande". PMID 17730762.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Further reading
- Jiří Kříž, John Pojeta, Jr. and Barrande. (1974). Barrande's Colonies Concept and a Comparison of His Stratigraphy with the Modern Stratigraphy of the Middle Bohemian Lower Paleozoic Rocks (Barrandian) of Czechoslovakia. Journal of Paleontology 48 (3): 489–494.
External links
- Detailed biography
- Detailed biography (in Czech, with details of his stay in Bohemia)
- Works by or about Joachim Barrande at Internet Archive
- part of his collection accessible online via Europeana
- Works by Joachim Barrande accessible online via Kramerius (digital library)
- Système silurien du centre de la Bohême accessible online via Kramerius (digital library)