Léon Pervinquière, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Léon Pervinquière

French geologist

Date of Birth: 14-Aug-1873

Place of Birth: La Roche-sur-Yon, Pays de la Loire, France

Date of Death: 11-May-1913

Profession: geologist, geographer, paleontologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Léon Pervinquière (14 August 1873 in La Roche-sur-Yon – 11 May 1913) was a French geologist and paleontologist.
He was Chef des Travaux Pratiques de Géologie at the Sorbonne in Paris.
He was also seen as a geographer.Pervinquière is remembered for his extensive geological studies of Tunisia, which first took place in 1896.
He also conducted important paleontological research of the region that included studies of Mesozoic cephalopods as well as investigations of Cretaceous gastropods and pelecypods. In 1911 he took part in an expedition to define the border between Tunisia and Tripolitania.
On this mission he performed geological and geographical studies. The third part of Philippe Thomas's Essai d'une description géologique de la Tunisie, which was to have described the Tertiary formations, was completed and published by his friend, Léon Pervinquière.Émile Haug published the Essai d'une description géologique de la Tunisie after Pervinquiere had also died, and presented it to the Geological Society of France in session on 6 April 1914.The ammonite species Fagesia pervinquieri is named after him.