Victor Audouin
See also: Audouin
Victor Audouin , born with Paris the April 27th 1797 and died in Paris the November 9th 1841, is a Naturaliste, Entomologiste and Ornithologue French.
Biography
Intended by his/her parents for studies of right, Audouin, impassioned by the Natural history, follows studies of Médecine and obtains a title of doctor in 1826. It is named in 1823 assistant librarian of the Institut. In 1824, he becomes the assistant of Pierre André Latreille (1762-1833), then professor of entomology to the national Muséum of natural history of Paris. Audouin succeeds to him in 1833 and preserves this function until its death. In 1838, he becomes member of the Academy of Science in the section of rural economy.He traverses, of 1826 with 1829, with Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885), the coasts of Normandy and Brittany, and publishes in 1832 the fruit of his observations under the title of Natural history of the littoral of France .
Its major work, the History of the harmful insects to the Vine and particularly of the Bee moth (1837, 1842), is supplemented after its death by Henri Milne-Edwards and Emile Blanchard (1819-1900). Audouin makes appear many articles in the Annales of the natural science , publication which it founds with Adolphe Brongniart (1801-1876) and Jean-Baptiste Dumas (1800-1884) in 1824. Audouin is also one of creators of the entomological Société of France (1832). He pronounces, on February 8th 1833, a speech on the tomb of Latreille in the name of the entomological Company.
Audouin also contributed to other branches of the Natural history. He is joint author of the traditional Dictionnaire of natural history (1822) and he collaborated with Milne-Edwards in the study of the marine animals of French coastal water. Audouin signed the part of ornithology of the Description of the Egypt of Jules-César Savigny (1826). One notices his memories on the Shellfish (1828), on the Muscardine, disease of the Silkworm (1836).
A bird to him was dedicated Goéland of Audouin ( Larus audouinii ) by Charles Payraudeau (1798-1865) in 1826.
List partial of the publications
- History of the harmful insects to the vine and particularly of the Bee moth which devastates the vineyards of the departments of the Coast-with Or, of Saône-et-Loire, the the Rhone, the Herault, the the Eastern Pyrenees, the Haute-Garonne, the Charente-Lower , the Marne and Seine-et-Oise, with the indication of the means which one must employ to fight it… Paris, Fort, Masson, 1842
Source
- Jean Gouillard (2004). History of the French entomologists, 1750-1950. Entirely re-examined and increased edition. Boubée (Paris): 287 p.
- Jean Théodoridès (1978). a zoologist of the romantic time. Jean-Victor Audouin (1797-1841). Editions of the Committee of historical and scientific Work (Paris), collection Memory of the section of sciences : 128 p.
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