René-Édouard Claparède Explained

René-Édouard Claparède (24 April 1832 in Chancy  - 31 May 1871 in Siena) was a Swiss anatomist.^[1] The Claparède family was Protestant and originally from Languedoc. They moved to Geneva after Louis XIV:s Edict of Fontainebleau in 1685.

He received his education in Geneva and Berlin, where he attended lectures given by Johannes Peter Müller.^[1] Later on, he served as an assistant to François Jules Pictet de la Rive at the Geneva Academy, where in 1862 he became a professor of comparative anatomy. He was a regular contributor to the Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles.^[2] His main research dealt with the structure of infusoria, the anatomy of annelids, the histology of earthworms, the embryology of arthropods and the evolution of spiders.^[2] Species with the epithet of claparedii commemorate his name, an example being the sea anemone Edwardsia claparedii.^[3] Claparède stressed the importance of studying and illustrating living or recently killed organisms and he did not deposit any museum specimens. He died aged 39 from tuberculosis.

Selected works

• Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte der Neritina fluviatilis, 1857  - Anatomy and developmental history of Neritina fluviatilis.
• Études sur les infusoires et les rhizopodes, 1858 (with Johannes Lachmann)  - Studies of infusoria and rhizopods.
• De la formation et de la fécondation des œufs chez les vers nématodes, 1859  - The formation and egg fertilization in nematode worms.
• Recherches sur l'evolution des araignées, 1862  - Research on the evolution of spiders.
• Recherches anatomiques sur les oligochètes, 1862  - Anatomical research on Oligochaeta.
• Beobachtungen über Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte wirbelloser Thiere an der Küste von Normandie, 1863  - Observations on the anatomy and evolution of invertebrates from the coast of Normandy.
• Les annelides chétopodes du Golfe de Naples, 1868  - On Chaetopoda annelids from the Gulf of Naples.
• Recherches sur la structure des annélides sédentaires, 1873  - Research on the structure of sedentary annelids.^[4]

References

• article on Claparede the protistologist

Notes and References

1. Claparède, Jean Louis. 6. 422–423.
2. http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D14320.php Claparède, René-Edouard
3. http://doris.ffessm.fr/Especes/Edwardsia-claparedii-Anemone-de-Claparede-2560 Edwardsia claparedii
4. http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n90-716402/ Most widely held works about René-Édouard Claparède