Auguste Forel

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birth_date = September 1, 1848
birth_place = Morges, Switzerland
death_date = July 27, 1931
death_place = Yvorne
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nationality = Switzerland
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field = Myrmecology neuroanatomist psychiatrist
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Auguste-Henri Forel (September 1, 1848 – July 27, 1931) was a Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist, notable for his investigations into the brain structure of humans and ants. Forel is also known for his early contributions to sexology. [cite web
title=Auguste Forel - The First Swiss Sexologist
url=http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/FOREL.HTM
accessdate=2008-02-23]

Biography

Born in LaGracieuse, near Morges, Switzerland, Forel had a diverse and mixed career as a thinker on many subjects. In the field of his psychiatric work he was a significant influence on Sigmund FreudFact|date=December 2007. He was appointed professor of psychiatry in 1879 at the University of Zurich Medical School. He not only ran the Burghölzli asylum there, but continued to publish papers on insanity, prison reform, and social morality. Around 1900 Forel was a eugenicist. [ [http://www.toolan.com/hitler/survive.html The Survival of the Fittest, Chapter II] ] Forel suffered a stroke that paralyzed his right side in 1912, but he taught himself to write with his left hand and was able to continue his studies. By 1914 he was a good friend of the eminent British entomologist Horace Donisthorpe, with whom he stayed in Switzerland; ["The Entomologist's Record", vol XXV, Nos 1-2 (1915)] his ardent socialist views frequently caused political arguments between the two. In 1920 he became a member of the Bahá'í Faith, [cite web
coauthors = National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Switzerland
title = Swiss Baha'is Celebrate 100 Years of Contributing to World Civilization
work = Baha'i Switzerland
publisher = National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Switzerland
year = 2003
url = http://www.bahai.ch/english/centenary_interlaken.html
accessdate = 2008-05-24 ] abandoning his earlier racist and socialist views saying, Quote|This is the true religion of human social good, without dogmas or priests, uniting all men on this small terrestrial globe of ours. I have become a Bahá’í. May this religion live and prosper for the good of mankind; this is my most ardent wish|PAGENAME| [cite book
first=Shoghi
last=Effendi
authorlink=Shoghi Effendi
year=1944
title=God Passes By
publisher=Bahá'í Publishing Trust
location=Wilmette, Illinois, USA
id=ISBN 0-87743-020-9
url=http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/se/GPB/ p.375]

From `Abdu'l-Bahá he received a letter about the differences between the mineral, vegetable, animal and human worlds, the spiritual nature of man and proofs of the existence of God.

His myrmecological five-volume "magnum opus", "Le Monde Social des Fourmis", was published in 1923. Donisthorpe heavily criticises it in the foreword to the 1927 edition of "", saying of the work:

He died in Yvorne at age 82.

Forel International School is named after him.

Works

Partial List
*"Les Fourmis de la Suisse, Systématique, notices anatomiques et physiologiques, architecture, distribution géographique, nouvelles expériences et observations de moeurs". Bale, Genève, Lyon, H. Georg. (1874).
*Ameisen aus Sumatra, Java, Malacca und Ceylon. Gesammelt V.Prof. Dr. V. Buttel Reepen in den Jahren, 1911-1912. "Zool. Jahrd.Jena Abt. F.Syst". 36: 1-148.(1913).
*Fourmis de Rhodesia, etc. recoltees par M. Arnold, le Dr. H. Brauns et K. Fikendey. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique. 57: 108-147.(1913).
*"Le monde social des fourmis du globe comparé à celui de l’homme".Genève, Kundig, 1921-1923, 5 volumes (1921-1923).

References

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year=2003
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title=Auguste Forel on ants and neurology
journal=The Canadian journal of neurological sciences. Le journal canadien des sciences neurologiques
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issue=3
pages=284–91
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year=1993
month=Oct
title=August Forel--cofounder of the neuron theory (1848-1931)
journal=Brain Pathol.
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issue=4
pages=425–30
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doi=10.1111/j.1750-3639.1993.tb00771.x
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title= [Auguste-Henri Forel (1848-1931)]
journal=Revista de medicină internă, neurologie, psihiatrie, neurochirurgie, dermato-venerologie. Neurologie, psihiatrie, neurochirurgie
volume=32
issue=3
pages=227–32
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year=1981
month=Sep
title= [August Forel (1848-1931)]
journal=Orvosi hetilap
volume=122
issue=38
pages=2359–61
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year=1950
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title= [Commemoration of the birth of Auguste Forel.]
journal=Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie und Psychiatrie. Archives suisses de neurologie et de psychiatrie. Archivio svizzero di neurologia e psichiatria
volume=65
issue=1-2
pages=421–5
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year=1951
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title= [Kokoschka's "portrait of professor Forel".]
journal=Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift (1950)
volume=93
issue=30
pages=1523–5
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year=1978
month=Jun
title=Auguste-Henri Forel
journal=JAMA
volume=239
issue=26
pages=2762
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doi=10.1001/jama.239.26.2762