Jean Victoire Audouin

Jean Victoire Audouin (April 27, 1797 - November 9, 1841) or, sometimes Victor Audouin was a French naturalist, entomologist and ornithologist.

Audouin was born in Paris and studied medicine. In 1824 he was appointed assistant to Pierre André Latreille as Professor of Entomology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, and succeeded him in 1833. In 1838 he became a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

His principal work, "Histoire des insectes nuisibles à la vigne" (1842), was completed after his death by Henri Milne-Edwards and Émile Blanchard. His papers mostly appeared in the "Annales des sciences naturelles", which, with Adolphe Theodore Brongniart and Jean-Baptiste Dumas, he founded in 1824, and in the proceedings of the Société entomologique de France, of which he was one of the founders in 1832.

Audouin also contributed to other branches of natural history. He co-authored the "Dictionaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle" (1822) and collaborated with Henri Milne-Edwards in a study of marine animals in French inshore waters. He also completed Marie Jules César Savigny's ornithological section of "Description de l'Egypte" (1826).

Publications

"Histoire des insectes nuisibles à la vigne et particulièrement de la Pyrale qui dévaste les vignobles des départements de la Côte-d'Or, de Saône-et-Loire, du Rhône, de l'Hérault, des Pyrénées-Orientales, de la Haute-Garonne, de la Charente-Inférieure, de la Marne et de Seine-et-Oise, avec l'indication des moyens qu'on doit employer pour la combattre..." Paris, Fortin, Masson, 1842

References

*1911

Further reading

* cite encyclopedia
last = Theodorides
first = Jean
title = Audouin, Jean Victor
encyclopedia = Dictionary of Scientific Biography
volume = 1
pages = 328-329
publisher = Charles Scribner's Sons
location = New York
date = 1970
isbn = 0684101149

External links

* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ Digital Catalogue of Audouin's library at Gallica]