Victor Fatio [SEP] place of birth
Victor Fatio
Victor Fatio (28 November 1838 – 19 March 1906), was a Swiss zoologist.
Biography.
Fatio was born as Victor Fatio de Beaumont in Geneva. His interest in animals was aroused in childhood, when he was accompanied his father, Gustave Fatio de Beaumont, on his hunting trips.
He studied physiology in Zurich, Berlin and Leipzig where he received the degree of a Doctor of Philosophy. In 1861 however, he almost forgot his physiology knowledge due to a typhoid fever illness.
Alfred Morel-Fatio
Alfred Paul Victor Morel-Fatio (9 January 1850 in Strasbourg, France – 10 October 1924 in Versailles, France) was the leading French Hispanist of his time, educated at École des chartes, Paris.
From 1875 to 1880 he was attaché of the department of manuscripts of the Bibliothèque Nationale, during which period he prepared his excellent "Catalogue des manuscrits espagnols et portugais de la Bibliothèque Nationale". For the next five years he was professor at the École supérieure des lettres at Algiers.