Charles Victor Naudin

Charles Naudin

Charles Victor Naudin (born 14 August 1815 in Autun - died 19 March 1899 in Antibes) was a French naturalist and botanist.

Biography

He studied at Bailleul-sur-Thérain in 1825, then to Limoux, a graduate of the University of Montpellier in 1837, he was preceptor in 1838 and obtained his doctorate in 1842. He taught until 1846, when he joined the herbarium of the National Museum of Natural History. He collaborated with A. Saint-Hilaire when he worked in the publication of the Brazilian flora. He introduced the first seeds of Jubaea chilensis in France.

He taught at Chaptal College as professor of zoology, but a neurological disease left him deaf. He then became an assistant naturalist in 1854 and married in 1860. He entered the Academy of Sciences in 1863 and he succeeded Horace Benedict Alfred Moquin-Tandon. He joined Collioure in 1869 and held a private experimental garden. In 1878, he was appointed director of the botanical garden of Villa Thuret of Antibes (current laboratory of INRA), but lost sight. He worked closely with Jacques Nicolas Ernest Germain de Saint-Pierre.

Despite that he was running experiments on hybridization and the acclimation of plants for the production of new species. He studied heredity, the flora of Brazil and describes twenty kinds of pumpkins in 1860.

Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel studied his work. It is considered a precursor of modern genetics.

Bibliography

The two Washingtonia planted by Charles Naudin at Villa Saint Malo in Argelès.

His major work is on hybrids, Mémoire sur les hybrides du règne végétal, inserted in the Recueil des savants étrangers, and through which he received the Grand Prize of the Institute of Botany in 1862. The study of hereditary phenomena according to his designs is known in France as naudinism: The species must be formed in the same way that our cultivated varieties. Naudin attributes the formation of these to the systematic selection by Man, but he does not explain how selection acts in the state of nature.
He is interested in the systematics of plants, including pumpkins. Charles Naudin establishes, contrary to the generally accepted view, the non-permanence of hybrids. The botanist has also published a series of memoirs dealing with the case of cosmic influences, and has published numerous articles in the Journal horticulture. He has worked on various treaties and codes of agriculture and horticulture. His handbook Manuel de l'acclimateur (Paris, 1888) is a reference to the Acclimatization of the Riviera in the XIX th century. During his stay in Collioure, he participated in the palm plantation of the villa of the Baron de Saint Malo Vilmarest in Argeles-sur-Mer, including two Washingtonia.

The standard author abbreviation Naudin is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

Sources

• pHD thesis of Charles Naudin, in 1842

References

1. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

External links

• Manuel de l'acclimateur (1887) published with Ferdinand von Mueller

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Name	Naudin, Charles
Alternative names
Short description	French naturalist and botanist
Date of birth	14 August 1815
Place of birth	Autun, France
Date of death	19, March 1899
Place of death	Antibes, France