JEAN

See also:

• ALPHONSE, COUNT OF TOULOUSE AND OF POITIERS (I220-1271)

ALPHONSE

See also:

• JEAN ALPHONSE FAVRE (1815-1890)
• FAVRE, JULES CLAUDE GABRIEL (1809-1880)

FAVRE (1815-1890)  , Swiss geologist, was born at Geneva on the 31st of March 1815 . He was for many years professor of geology in the academy at Geneva, and afterwards president of the Federal Commission with charge of the geological map of Switzerland . One of his earliest papers was On the Anthracites of the Alps {1841), and later he gave special attention to the geology of Savoy and of Mont Blanc, and to the ancient glacial phenomena of those Alpine regions . His elucidation of the geological structure demonstrated that . certain anomalous occurrences of fossils were due to repeated interfoldings of the strata and to complicated overthrust faults . In 1867 he published Recherches geologiques dans les parties de la Savoie, du Piemont et de la Suisse voisines du Mont Blanc . He died at Geneva in June 18go . His son ERNEST FAVRE (b . 1845) has written on the palaeontology and geology of Galicia, Savoy and the Fribourg Alps, and of the Caucasus and Crimea .