Pierre-François Keraudren

Pierre François Keraudren , born in 1769 in Brest, died in 1858 with Passy, is a French scientist who occupied the post of First Doctor of the Navy.

Career

Keraudren is born in Brest, of a father surgeon of marine. In 1782 it enters to the Naval Medical school of Brest. He dies in Passy at the 89 years age.

Posterity

The Forwarding Baudin of 1801, for which it had, as a doctor of navy, written medical instructions, wished to pay homage to him. Thus one finds in Western Australia a Cape Keraudren charted in 1801 by the Géographe , corvette of 350 barrels and 30 guns armed in the port with the Havre. There exists also an island Keraudren ( Keraudren Island ) located at the west of Australia (14° 56 ' 33" S and 124° 41 ' 2" E).

A endemic bird of paradise of New Guinea bears the name Keraudren ('' manucodia keraudrenii '', Lesson and Garnot 1826). It also seems that he is the person honoured in the names with gastropode Oxygyrus keraudrenii (Lesueur, 1817) and Pterotrachea keraudrenii (Eydoux and Souleyet, 1832).

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