Daget, J.

found: Bâ, A.H. L'empire peul du Macina, c1984:t.p. (J. Daget) prelim. p. 1 (Jacques Daget; b. France, 1919; was Directeur du Laboratoire d'Hydrobiologie de l'IFAN à Diafarabé, Mali)

found: Rapport au Gouvernement du Niger sur la situation et l'évolution de la pêche au Niger, 1962:t.p. (Jacques M.A. Daget) p. 1 (Directeur de recherches de l'ORSTOM et Chef du laboratoire d'hydrobiologie de Mopti (Mali))

found: Persée website, Outre-mers, tome 96, no 358-359, 2008, viewed online September 16, 2019:pages 381-382 (Jacques DAGET; died 29 June 2009, on the eve of his 90th birthday; known to naturalists, particularly ichthyologists; deserves to be known by Africanists in general; studied at École Polytechnique, then studied zoology and botany at the Sorbonne; in 1946 he obtained a scholarship from the École Française d'Afrique as researcher-intern at the Institut français d'Afrique noire, IFAN, then directed by Théodore Monod; spent a year in the Niger [river] central delta collecting data on the Polypterus group, freshwater fish, the topic of his 1949 thesis; also obtained a diploma in Sudanese [West Africa] languages from École des langues orientales; gifted in languages, he mastered Fulbe ["pular"] and Bobo, the language of fishermen; coauthored "La langue bozo" in 1953 in Etudes soudaniennes; at Monod's request, he returned to Africa to create the "base IFAN no 2", a hydrobiology laboratory in Diafarabé, Soudan française; while there he met Amadou Hampathé Ba, with whom he coauthored "L'Empire peul du Macina" (1955); he spent 15 years in Africa; in 1960 he left IFAN for ORSTOM and Diafarabé for Mopti, then in 1963 left Mali for Chad; returned to France in 1965; in 1975, he succeeded Monod as the chair of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle rebaptized "Dynamique des Populations aquatiques"; retired in 1984, returned to Africa several times)

found: Wikipedia, September 16, 2019(Jacques Daget; born 30 June 1919, Vineuil; French ichthyologist; he was a professor at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris)