Edouard-Raoul Brygoo

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Edouard-Raoul Brygoo

Édouard-Raoul Brygoo (born April 22, 1920 in Lille ; † February 8, 2016 ) was a French doctor and biologist .

Life

Édouard-Raoul Brygoo was born in Lille in French Flanders . He enjoyed his training in the medical service of the French Navy in Bordeaux , today's École du service de santé des armées de Bordeaux . Here he was awarded a doctorate in 1946 with a dissertation on "entomological bromatology" (nutritional research on the consumption of insects). med. PhD . In 1949 he received an internship at the Pasteur Institute in Paris , where he worked with anaerobic bacteria for the next two years . In 1950 he left France and initially took over the laboratory management of the Pasteur Institute of Saigon in Vietnam . From 1954 to 1962 he was the deputy director of the Pasteur Institute in Madagascar , the direction of which he was director from 1964 to 1972 in the capital Antananarivo . After returning to his homeland, from 1975 to 1977 he devoted himself to the overseas tasks of the Pasteur Institute in Paris as assistant to the deputy director. In addition, he was appointed a member of the Assembly of the Pasteur Institute and in 1974 was an officer in the reserve with the rank of general doctor . Since 1977 he has been a professor of zoology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, where he was curator of the department for amphibians and reptiles from 1978 to 1989 .

Scientific achievements

In addition to his medical work for the Pasteur Institute in Madagascar, Brygoo dealt with the parasitology of reptiles and other small animals in the 1950s . Together with the French parasitologist Alain G. Chabaud , he published several articles on roundworms . In the field of zoology he had made a name for himself ostensibly as a herpetologist . In the 1960s he undertook numerous expeditions with the French zoologists Charles P. Blanc and Charles Domergue . His greatest scientific interest was the research and systematic identification of the chameleons of Madagascar. Twenty new chameleon species emerged from his initial descriptions . Together with his two co-authors, Blanc and Domergue, he was able to identify ten new species of stump tail chameleons of the genus Brookesia . A total of 24 newly discovered reptile species can be traced back to Édouard-Raoul Brygoo.

The stub tail chameleon Brookesia peyrierasi ( Brygoo & Domergue , 1974)

Described taxa

Chameleons

Skinks

Shield lizards

Dedication names

Fonts

  • Reptiles Sauriens Chamaeleonidae. Genre Chamaeleo . Faune de Madagascar, Volume 33, ORSTOM, Paris 1971: 318 pp.
  • Reptiles Sauriens Chamaeleonidae. Genre Brookesia et complément pour le genre Chamaeleo . Faune de Madagascar, Volume 47, ORSTOM, Paris 1978: 173 pp.
  • Les types de lacertidés (Reptiles, Sauriens) du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle . Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Section A, Zoologie, biologie et écologie animales, 4e sér., T. 10, no.1, Paris 1988: 71 pp.
  • (with Charles Domergue ) Les Caméléons à rostre impair et rigide de l'ouest de Madagascar . Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Nouvelle série, Série A: Zoologie, Volume 52, Paris 1968: 110 pp.
  • (with Philippe Jaussaud ) Du Jardin au Muséum en 516 biographies . Archives du Muséum, Paris 2004: 630 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hommage au Professeur Edouard BRYGOO, ancien Directeur de l'IP ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Institut Pasteuer de Madagascar, accessed February 13, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pasteur.mg
  2. ↑ Essai de bromatologie entomologique: les Insectes comestibles: thèse - présentée . Imprimé de H. Trillaud, 1946: 74 pp.
personal data
SURNAME Brygoo, Édouard-Raoul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor and biologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Lille
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2016