Victor Fatio

Fatio studied physiology in Zurich, Berlin and Leipzig where he studied under Ernst Heinrich and Eduard Weber to receive the degree of a Doctor of Philosophy with a thesis titled De avium corpore pneumatic (1860).

After his recovery he went to Paris in 1862 to participate in the courses of Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–1885) and Claude Bernard at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, where he studied zoology.

Fatio married Anne Germaine, daughter of banker Alphone Turrettini in 1865.

[1][2] When Phylloxera invaded Switzerland in 1874, Fatio made extensive studies and initiated the world's first congress for the prevention of the grapevine pest which took place in Lausanne in 1877.

Together with Théophile Rudolphe Studer (1845–1922), Victor Fatio published the Catalogue des oiseaux de la Suisse ("Catalog of the Swiss birds"), of which only the first three booklets were released between 1889 and 1901.