Henri fabre biography
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Jean-Henri Fabre
French naturalist, entomologist and author
Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃ɑ̃ʁikazimiʁfabʁ]; 21 December 1823 – 11 October 1915) was a French naturalist, entomologist, and author known for the lively style of his popular books on the lives of insects.[1]
Biography
[edit]Fabre was born on 21 December 1823 in Saint-Léons in Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an autodidact, owing to the poverty of his family. Nevertheless, he acquired a primary teaching certificate at the age of 19 and began teaching in Carpentras whilst pursuing further studies. In 1849, he was appointed to a teaching post in Ajaccio (Corsica), then in 1853 moved on to the lycée in Avignon.[2]
Fabre was a popular teacher, physicist, chemist and botanist. However, he is probably best known for his findings in the field of entomology, the study of insects, and is considered by many to be the father of modern entomology. Much of his enduring pop
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Henri Fabre
19/20th-century French aviator and inventor of the seaplane
This article is about the inventor. For the biologist, see Jean-Henri Fabre.
Henri Fabre | |
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Henri Fabre on Hydroplane on 28 March 1910 | |
| Born | (1882-11-29)29 November 1882 Marseille, France |
| Died | 30 June 1984(1984-06-30) (aged 101) Le Touvet, France |
| Resting place | Le Touvet, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Pilot, businessman, engineer |
Henri Fabre (French pronunciation:[ɑ̃ʁifabʁ]; 29 November 1882 – 30 June 1984) was a French aviator and the inventor of the first successful seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion.[1]
Henri Fabre was born into a prominent family of shipowners in the city of Marseille. He was educated in the Jesuit College of Marseilles where he undertook advanced studies in sciences.
He intensively studied aeroplane and propeller designs. He patented a system of flotation devices which he used when he succeeded in taking off from the sur
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Scientist of the Day - Jean-Henri Fabre
Jean-Henri Fabre, a French writer and entomologist, was born Dec. 22, 1823. In 1879, Fabre began publishing a series of popular books on the lives and behavior of insects. They appeared over the next 30 years in ten volumes and are known collectively as the Souvenirs entomologiques. This was a brand new kind of zoological prose, almost biographical in style, except the subjects were wasps, weevils, and caterpillars, which Fabre observed daily with evident pleasure and delight. No doubt the most famous del in all his works appears in his Life of the Caterpillar, a translation of the 6th volume of the Souvenirs. Fabre had collected in his greenhouse some Pine Processionary caterpillars, which have the curious habit of travelling in follow-the-leader mode, with the lead caterpillar laying down a trail of silk and each succeeding one, following snout-to-butt, adding to the silken trail. One day a colony clim