Émile Warré was a French
priest
A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in partic ...
and
beekeeper
A beekeeper is a person who keeps honey bees.
Beekeepers are also called honey farmers, apiarists, or less commonly, apiculturists (both from the Latin '' apis'', bee; cf. apiary). The term beekeeper refers to a person who keeps honey bees i ...
who published several books and invented the
Warré Hive, also known as the People’s Hive.
Biography
Éloi François Émile Warré was born on May 9, 1867 in
Grébault-Mesnil
Grébault-Mesnil (; pcd, Guérbeu-Mégni) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Geography
The commune is situated on the D86 road, some 8 miles (12 km) southwest of Abbeville
Abbeville (, vls, ...
and died on April 20, 1951 in
Tours
Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metro ...
. He was ordained as a priest on September 19, 1891 in the Diocese of
Amiens
Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France. In 2021, the population of ...
and became a parish priest in
Mérélessart (
Somme) in 1897 and then in
Martainneville (Somme) in 1904.
Publications
He published several books based on his research:
* ''La santé ou les Meilleurs traitements de toutes les maladies''
* ''Le Miel, ses propriétés et ses usages''
* ''L’apiculture pour tous''
* ''Le Secret de la santé, manuel des malades, des bien-portants et des gardes-malades''
Warré hive
He is best known as the inventor of the People’s Hive (french: la ruche populaire). By 1948, Warré had been practicing beekeeping for over thirty years and had 350 hives in his apiary with a variety of models which he compared for over 15 years. After extensive research, he designed the People’s Hive. The goal was to create a hive that was as close to the natural conditions for the bees while remaining practical for the beekeeper. It was also designed to be built economically by anyone with simple tools and his book.
[Abbé Warré - L'Apiculture Pour Tous (12th edition) - 1948]
References
Links Italian Website on Warré Beehives
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Beekeeping pioneers
French beekeepers
French Roman Catholic priests
1867 births
1951 deaths