Perceval de Loriol, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Perceval de Loriol

Swiss paleontologist (1828-1908)

Date of Birth: 24-Jul-1828

Place of Birth: Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland

Date of Death: 23-Dec-1908

Profession: geologist, paleontologist

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Charles Louis Perceval de Loriol (24 July 1828, Geneva – 23 December 1908, Cologny) was a Swiss paleontologist and stratigraphist. He studied natural sciences and paleontology in Geneva as a pupil of François-Jules Pictet.
For a period of time, he worked as an estate manager in Geneva and Lorraine, then for nearly forty years was associated with the Natural History Museum of Geneva.
He was one of the founders of the Schweizerische Paläontologische Gesellschaft and was an editor of the Mémoires de la Société suisse paléontologique.
In 1902 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of GenevaHe is remembered for his investigations of fossil echinoderms found in Europe and North Africa from the Jurassic, Cretaceous and Upper Tertiary Eras.
He was the author of numerous taxa, an example being the crinoid family Bourgueticrinidae (1882).