Auguste Jaccard (6 July 1833, in Culliairy near Sainte-Croix – 5 January 1895, in

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) was a Swiss

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. His scientific research, for the most part, was associated with the Jura Mountains. In around 1845, he moved with his father to Le Locle, where the elder Jaccard opened a

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workshop that was later managed by his son. As a geologist, Auguste Jaccard was self-taught, having

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Pierre Jean Édouard Desor Pierre Jean Édouard Desor (13 February 1811, Friedrichsdorf, Grand Duchy of Hesse23 February 1882) was a German-Swiss geologist and naturalist. Biography Desor studied law at Giessen and Heidelberg, was compromised in the republican movements ...

as important influences to his career. In 1856 he released his first publication, a treatise on fossils found in the basin of Le Locle.Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz
biography From 1861 he was a member of the geological survey group of the ''Société helvétique des sciences naturelles'' (Swiss Society of Natural Sciences), tasked with mapping the western part of the Jura Mountains. In 1868 he became a substitute teacher at the Neuchâtel Academy, where he later served as a professor (1873–95). He is credited with creating a geological map that extended to the western part of Switzerland ( Neuchâtel, Jura and

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). He also conducted applied research in the field of

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and of

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. In 1883 he was awarded with an honorary doctorate from the

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Selected works

* ''Supplément ä la Description géologique du Jura vaudois et neuchâtelois'', 1870 – Supplement to the geological description of Jura and Neuchâtel, * ''Coup d'oeil sur les origines et le développement de la paléontologie en Suisse'', 1887 – The origins and development of paleontology in Switzerland. * ''Le pétrole, l'asphalte et le bitume au point de vue géologique'', 1895 – Petroleum, asphalt and bitumen from a geological viewpoint.Catalog HathiTrust
published works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jaccard, Auguste 1833 births 1895 deaths Swiss paleontologists 19th-century Swiss geologists Swiss cartographers People from Jura-North Vaudois District