Louis Jurine

Louis Jurine
Born	(1751-02-06)6 February 1751 Geneva, Republic of Geneva
Died	20 October 1819(1819-10-20) (aged 68) Chougny, Kingdom of France
Medical career
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)

External links

• Zoologica Göttingen State and University Library