Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy

Geologist, Deceased Person

1792 – 1857

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Who was Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy?

Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy was a French geologist and mineralogist.

He was born at Sevran, in the département of Seine-et-Oise. After leaving the Imperial Lyceum in 1811, he studied until 1813 at the École Polytechnique, and then entered the Corps des mines. He subsequently assisted in the management of the École des Mines, of which he was professor of mineralogy and afterwards director. He was also professor of geology at the École des Ponts et Chaussées.

In conjunction with Élie de Beaumont in 1841 he published a great geological map of France, the result of investigations carried on during thirteen years. Five years were spent in writing the text to accompany the map, the publication of the work with two quarto volumes of text extending from 1841-1848; a third volume was issued in 1873. The two authors had already together published Voyage Métallurgique en Angleterre, Mémoires pour servir a une description géologique de la France, in four vols., and a Mémoire on Cantal and Mont-Dore.

Other literary productions of Dufrénoy are an account of the iron mines of the eastern Pyrenees, and a treatise on mineralogy, in which the geological relations as well as the physical and chemical properties of minerals were dealt with; he likewise contributed numerous papers to the Annales des mines and other scientific publications, one of the most interesting of which is entitled Des terrains volcaniques des environs de Naples. He occupied the chair of mineralogy of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle from 1847 to 1857.

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Born
Sep 5, 1792
Sevran
Also known as
  • Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrenoy
Profession
Education
  • École Polytechnique
Lived in
  • Paris
Died
Mar 20, 1857

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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