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HUBER, FRANCOIS (1750-1831)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 845 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HOR-I25
HUBER, FRANCOIS (1750-1831) , Swiss naturalist, was born at Geneva on the 2nd of July 1750. He belonged to a family which had already made its mark in the literary and scientific world: his
great
 -aunt, Marie Huber (16951753), was known as a voluminous writer on religious and theological subjects, and as the translator and epitomizer of the Spectator (
Amsterdam
 , 3 vols., 1753); and his father
Jean
  Huber (17211786), who had served for many years as a soldier, was a prominent member of the coterie at Ferney, distinguishing himself by his Observations sur le vol des oiseaux (Geneva, 1784). Francois Huber was only fifteen years old when he began to suffer from an affection of the eyes which gradually resulted in
total
  blindness; but, with the aid of his wife, Marie Aimee Lullin, and of his servant, Francois Burnens, he was able to carry out investigations that laid the
foundations
  of our scientific knowledge of the
life
  history of the honey-bee. His Nouvelles Observations sur les abeilles was published at Geneva in 1702 (Eng. trans., 18o6). He assisted
Jean
 
Senebier in his Mena. sur l'
influence
  de Pair, &c., clans la germination (Geneva, 'Soo); and he also wrote " Mein. sur 1'origine de la cire " (Bibliotheque britannique, tome xxv.), a " Lettre a M. Pictet sur certains dangers que courent les abeilles " (Bib. brit.
xxvii
 ), and "Nouvelles Observ. rel. au
sphinx
  Atropos " (Bib. brit.
xxvii
 ). He died at Lausanne on the 22nd of December 1831. De Candolle gave his name to a genus of Brazilian treesIluberia laurina.


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