Joachim Barrande (1799–1883)

French-born palaeontologist and stratigrapher. Employed as a tutor by the French royal family until their exile in 1830. Railway engineer in Prague, where he became interested in fossils. Collected and described the fossils of the Bohemian basin, 1840–83. The results of his studies were published in thirty volumes entitled Systême Silurien du centre de la Bohême (1852–1902).