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.
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.