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).
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
