Jean Dorst

Jean Dorst , born with Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) the August 7th 1924 and died in Paris the August 8th 2001, is a French ornithologist

He studies biology and paleontology with the Faculty of Science of the Université of Paris. In 1947, it joined the national Muséum of natural history. It succeeds Jacques Berlioz (1891-1975) with the direction of the department of the mammals and birds in 1964, and it is elected director of the Natural history museum in 1975. He resigns about it in 1985 to protest against the governmental reforms.

He is elected member of the Academy of Science in 1973. He is one of the founders and the second president of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos, vice-president of the commission on the protection of the species threatened of the International Union for Conservation off Natural (IUCN), member of the National council of protection of nature, member of the Interdisciplinary Université of Paris and many international scientific companies. He chairs the sixteenth international ornithological Congrès (IOC) and the zoological Société of France in 1964.

Jean Dorst published ten books translated in the whole world, in particular the Birds, the Migrations of the Birds, Before nature dies, the Life of the Birds, the Birds in their medium, a Guide of the large mammals of Africa, the Animals travellers, the Universe of the life . He takes part in the scenario of the documentary film which is dedicated to him, the migrating People .

Its work Before nature dies (1964) had a great influence on the naturalists of various disciplines, beyond the French-speaking world, which took more and more the measurement of the problems encountered by fauna and the flora. In the years which followed its publication, of many associations devoted to the study and protection of nature transfer the day, in particular in France.

List partial of the publications

Migrations of the birds , 1956, Payot, “Small library”, 1956, republication 1962
the Animals travellers , 1964
Before nature dies , 1964
denatured Nature , the Threshold, coll “Points/Essais”, 1970,188 p.
Guide of the mammals of Africa: Rats with horn with the elephants , illustrated by Pierre Dandelot, Delachaux and Niestlé
The Life off Birds , Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
the Life of the birds , 2 volumes, 1971, Editions Meets, Lausanne, 767 p.
the Birds in their medium, 1971, Editions Meets, Lausanne, 383 p. (this work and the precedent is a translation of The Life off Birds )
the Universe of the life , 1975
1979: the Force of alive the , Flammarion (Paris): 265 p.
Amazonnia , 1987
South-Eastern Asia , 1987
the Birds did not fall from the sky , J.P. De Monza, 1995, Rééd. 2001
Fauna in danger , with Gaëtan of Chatenet, Delachaux and Niestlé, 1998
And if one did speak about the life? - Matter of a naturalist , with Sebastien Ripari, Maisonneuve and Larose, 1999
Voyages - Three centuries of explorations naturalists , with Tony Rice and Patrice Leraut, Delachaux and Niestlé, 1999
Dictionary of biology , with Jean-Louis Morère and Raymond Pujol, Clippings Rock, 2002
migrating People with Jean-François Mongibeaux and Jacques Perrin, the Threshold, 2002

External bonds

Homage of the Palate of discovered the
Bibliography of Jean Dorst by Yvon Maho

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