Olry Terquem (paleontologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Olry Terquem (paleontologist)

French geologist and paleontologist (1797–1887)

Date of Birth: 26-Sep-1797

Place of Birth: Metz, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 19-Jun-1887

Profession: geologist, paleontologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Olry Terquem (paleontologist)

  • Olry Terquem (26 September 1797 in Metz – 19 June 1887 in Paris) was a French pharmacist and paleontologist.
  • He was a nephew of mathematician Olry Terquem (1782–1862). Up until 1822 he studied pharmacy in Paris, and afterwards returned as a pharmacist to his hometown of Metz.
  • From 1833 he taught classes in industrial chemistry at the École Centrale in Metz.
  • In 1852 he sold his pharmacy and devoted all his time to geology and paleontology.
  • Due to consequences of the Franco-Prussian War, he moved to Paris, where he established a paleontology laboratory.
  • In Paris, he worked on the classification of Alcide d'Orbigny's foraminifera collections.From 1845 to 1865 he conducted extensive stratigraphic and paleontological investigations of the Lorraine region, Luxembourg and the Ardennes.
  • In the mid-1850s, during the construction of railway lines in Moselle, he discovered well preserved foraminifera fossils.
  • He is also remembered for characterizing what would subsequently be known as the Hettangian strata, the earliest stage of the Jurassic period.
  • In 1864 Eugène Renevier proposed the term "Hettangian", named after the community of Hettange-Grande in Moselle (its stratotype being a nearby quarry).He was a member of numerous learned societies, including the SociĂ©tĂ© gĂ©ologique de France (from 1850).
  • He also worked as a curator in the geology section of the Metz museum.
  • Species with the epithet of terquemi commemorate his name, an example being the foraminiferan Neoconorbina terquemi (Rzehak, 1888).

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