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Jean Victoir Audouin was born on April 27, 1797 in Paris, France. Audouin was the second child of Victor Joseph Audouin, a notary, and Jeanne Marie Pierrette Enée.
Collection of portraits of the central library. Jean Victor Audouin (1797-1841).
Jean Victor Audouin (27 April 1797 – 9 November 1841), sometimes Victor Audouin, was a French naturalist, an entomologist, herpetologist, ornithologist, and malacologist.
Charles Émile Blanchard (6 March 1819 – 11 February 1900) was a French zoologist and entomologist.
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Jean Victoir Audouin was born on April 27, 1797 in Paris, France. Audouin was the second child of Victor Joseph Audouin, a notary, and Jeanne Marie Pierrette Enée.
Audouin began his studies at Rheims in 1807, and continued them at Paris in 1809 and at Lucca from 1812 to 1814; in Lucca he stayed with a relative who was an official in the household of Princess Elisa Baciocchi.
In 1816 Audouin met the mineralogist Alexandre Brongniart, who hired him as his secretary and had a notable influence on Audouin’s scientific career. In the same year Audouin published his first entomological work, and in 1820 he read his important paper, “Recherches anatomiques sur le thorax des animaux articulés et celui des insectes en particulier,” before the Académie des Sciences. This report won him the praise of Cuvier and was printed in 1824.
He and other naturalists founded the Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris in 1822, and in 1824 he began publication of the Annales des sciences naturelles, an important scientific periodical still in existence. His collaborators on the journal were Adolphe Brongniart and Jean-Baptiste Dumas, both of whom later became his brothers-in-law. In 1825 he became assistant to Lamarck and Latreille at the Museum of Natural History in Paris; and the following year he was asked to finish the work of Savigny (then incapacitated by serious eye trouble) on the invertebrates collected during the Egyptian expedition of 1798–1799.
The same year, 1826, Audouin and Henri Milne Edwards began a course of anatomical, physiological, and biological research on the marine invertebrates of the Breton and Norman coast. These were pioneer studies of this type in France. It was also in 1826 that Audouin presented his doctoral thesis on the chemical, pharmaceutical, and medical natural history of the cantharides.
In 1827 and 1828 he and Milne Edwards published the results of their anatomical and physiological research on crustacea. In 1830 he replaced Latreille as assistant naturalist at the Natural History Museum. He and Milne Edwards then published, in 1832, the first volume of their Recherches pour servir à l’histoire naturelle du littoral de la France. This work initiated the bionomic classification of coastal marine invertebrates. Also in 1832, Audouin and other entomologists founded the Société Entomologique de France, and in 1833 he succeeded Latreille as professor of zoology (in the chair dealing with crustacea, arachnids, and insects) at the Natural History Museum.
From 1834 on, he specialized in agricultural entomology, and in 1836–1837 he confirmed the observations of Agostino Bassi concerning the muscardine of the silkworm (Beauveria bassiana). On 5 February 1838, Audouin was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences (Section d’Économic Rurale).
He died after a short illness, and his Histoire naturelle des insectes nuisibles à la vigne was finished by his collaborator, Émile Blanchard, and his friend Henri Milne Edwards, in 1842.
Audouin’s principal work, Histoire des insectes nuisibles à la vigne (1842), was completed after his death by his associates Henri Milne-Edwards and Émile Blanchard. He produced a significant amount of research papers which appeared in the Annales des sciences naturelles, and which he founded in 1824, as well as in the proceedings of the Société entomologique de France, of which he was also one of the founders in 1832. In 1833, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Audouin also contributed to other branches of natural history. With Brongniart and Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, he was co-author of the Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle, and with Henri Milne-Edwards, he collaborated on a study of marine animals found in French coastal waters. He also completed Marie Jules César Savigny's ornithological section of Description de l'Egypte (1826).
One Audouin`s other achievements was also in studies of amphibians during the period from 1827 to 1829 and reptiles and in the discovery of four new species of lizards and one new species of frog.
In recognition to his scientific contribution Audouin was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences (Section d’Économic Rurale) on 5 February 1838.
Audouin’s work is both that of a scrupulously careful morphologist and anatomist of Cuvier’s school, and that of a biologist who has left behind important observations on the physiology of crustacea as well as on the ethology of various insects harmful to cultivated plants. This last phase of his research marks Audouin’s work as the precursor of modern applied entomology.
Jean Victor Audouin was a member of the Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris from 1822. In 1832 he became a member of the Société Entomologique de France.
He collaborated with Audouin on the Annales des sciences naturelles journal.
He was one of the collaborators with Audouin on the Annales des sciences naturelles journal.
In 1816 Audouin met the mineralogist Alexandre Brongniart, who hired him as his secretary and had a notable influence on Audouin’s scientific career.
Audouin and Henri Milne Edwards began a course of anatomical, physiological, and biological research on the marine invertebrates of the Breton and Norman coast in 1826.
