Robert Douvillé (1881-1914)pionero de la geología de la Cordillera Bética y de la provincia de Jaén.Homenaje en el centenario de su muerte en la Primera Guerra Mundial

Zusammenfassung

On the occasion of the centenary of the kill during the First World War of the French geologist Robert Douvillé (1881-1914) a short review about his life and work is presented to pay homage. Despite his early death his work was very important for the knowledge of the Betic Cordillera and the ammonoid and microfossil paleontology. Douvillé presented his splendid PhD about the Subbetic in 1906 in the Paris University. In his Thesis he analyzed the regional geology of a region to the south of Jaén in which the previous knowledge was very scarce or nonexistent. He interpreted the tectonic structure, recognizing, for the first time, the existence of allochthonous nappes. His important discoveries about the stratigraphy, paleontology and tectonic of these areas were the important foundation for later research. Robert Douvillé was also a great paleontologist specialized mainly in the study of ammonoids, lepydocyclines and nummulites, describing new genera and species, mainly from France, but also from other parts of Europe, America and Africa.