Auguste Chevalier | |
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 Auguste Chevalier in 1900 | |
| Born | (1873-06-23)June 23, 1873 |
| Died | June 4, 1956(1956-06-04) (aged 82) |
| Citizenship | French |
| Occupation | Botanist |
| Scientific career | |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | A.Chev. |
Auguste Jean Baptiste Chevalier (June 1873, inDomfront – June 1956, in Paris) was a Frenchbotanist,taxonomist, and explorer of tropicalAfrica, especially ofFrench colonial empire in Africa that includedCôte d'Ivoire. He also explored and collected plants inSouth America andtropical Asia. Chevalier was a prolific contributor to the knowledge of African plants, studying forest trees and their woods,grasses, and agricultural plants of the continent. Unlike other botanists who studied the plants of tropical Africa, Chevalier also ranged to the floral regions of theSahara.
In 1896, he obtained his degree innatural sciences and in 1901 his phD from theUniversity of Lille.[1][2] AtLille he worked as an assistant to botanistCharles Eugene Bertrand (1851-1917).[1] In 1899–1900, he took part in a scientific mission inFrench Sudan, and in 1905 established abotanical garden inDalaba,French Guinea.[2] From 1913 to 1919, he collected plants throughoutIndochina.[3] Later, he attained a professorship in Paris (1929).[4]
In 1937, he was elected as a member of theAcadémie des sciences, serving as its president in 1953. He was also a member of theAcadémie des sciences d'outre-mer (from 1922), president of theSociété botanique de France (1929), vice-president of theComité national de géographie (1935-1952) and a member of theAcadémie d'agriculture de France (from 1937).[1][4] He was elected a Foreign Member of theLinnean Society of London.[5]
In 1921, he founded the journal,Revue de Botanique appliquée et d'Agriculture coloniale.[1][4] The botanical generaChevalierella,Chevalierodendron,Neochevaliera andNeochevalierodendron are named in his honor.[2]
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