Louis Lavauden

Adrien Joseph Louis Lavauden (1885–1935) in 1927

Louis Lavauden (actually Adrien Joseph Louis Lavauden ; born June 19, 1881 in Grenoble , † September 1, 1935 in Anjou , Isère ) was a French zoologist and forest scientist .

Life

Title page of the first edition of Alauda

After studying at the Institut agronomique et de l'Ecole forestière in Nancy , Lavauden worked in the administration for water bodies and forests. As a zoologist, he went on excursions to the Dauphiné region , about which he published the book Catalog des oiseaux du Dauphiné contenant les espèces observées dans les départements de l'Isère, de la Drôme, des Hautes-Alpes et des environs immédiats de Lyon in 1911 . This work was not only about the avifauna in the Dauphiné, but also about lynx, ibex and lammergeier in the Alps.

In 1912 and 1913 he made several trips to North Africa, in particular Algeria and Tunisia, from where he brought numerous animal preparations for the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Grenoble . After the First World War , where he served as an infantry officer, he settled in Tunis and was appointed forest inspector. In the following years he wrote several works on the Tunisian avifauna. In 1925 he accompanied Colonel Victor-Paul Courtot on a Sahara expedition from Tunis across Lake Chad to Cotonou in the Kingdom of Dahomey .

From 1928 to 1931 he was stationed as head of the forestry authority in Madagascar, where he carried out numerous zoological studies and collected zoological preparations, especially from large lemurs . He then traveled through Central Africa before teaching practical and general zoology at the agricultural school in Paris for the last two years of his life. Lavauden described several new Tiertaxa, including the Perrier's sifaka ( Propithecus perrieri ), the Amber Mountain Rock Thrush ( Monticola sharpei erythronotus ) and westmadagassischen subspecies of Falanuks ( Eupleres goudotii major ), the Great Vasapapageis ( Coracopsis vasa drouhardi ) and the Madagascan Ibis ( Lophotibis cristata urschi ).

When Paul Paris (1875–1938) founded Alauda , an ornithological journal, in 1929 , it was Jacques de Chavigny (1880–1963), Jacques Delamain (1874–1953), Noël Mayaud (1899–1989), Henri Heim de Balsac (1899–1979), Henri Louis Ernest Jouard (1896–1938), Paul Poty (1889–1962) and Lavauden, who were part of the editorial team.

Dedication names

David Armitage Bannerman named a subspecies of the robin Erithacus rubecula lavaudeni in 1926 , a name that is now a synonym for Erithacus rubecula witherbyi Hartert, E , 1910. In 1926 he himself described a subspecies of the crested lark under the name Galerida cristata helenae , which he dedicated to his daughter Hélène.

Works (selection)

• Oiseaux , 1924
• La Chasse et la faune cynègètique en Tunisie , 1924
• Description de deux nouveaux cochevis d'Afrique . In: Revue française d'ornithologie (=  2 ). tape 10 , no. 201 , 1926, pp. 5–8 ( bibliotheques.mnhn.fr ).
• Les vertèbrès du Sahara: èlèments de zoologie saharienne , 1926
• The problem of forestier colonial. Avec 7 photographies et 3 planches hors texte , 1931
• The problem of forestier colonial , 1931

literature

• Jean Théodore Delacour : Obituary . In: The Ibis . tape 76 , no. 2 , 1936, pp. 384-385 ( onlinelibrary.wiley.com [PDF; 194 kB ]).
• Henri Louis Ernest Jouard: Louis Lavauden . In: Alauda (=  3 ). tape 7 , no. 4 , 1935, pp. 448–456 ( bibliotheques.mnhn.fr ).
• David Armitage Bannerman: Mr. David Bannerman exhibited and described a new Redbreast from highlands of N. Tunisia . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 47 , no. 306 , 1926, pp. 24 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Louis Lavauden in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Biography of the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Grenoble ( Memento of December 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
• Lavauden, Louis Adrien Joseph (1881–1935) (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ David Armitage Bannerman, p. 24.
2. ↑ Louis Lavauden (1926), p. 6.