Charles Victor Naudin

Charles Victor Naudin (born August 14, 1815 in Autun , † March 18, 1899 in Antibes ) was a French biologist and botanist . He is considered one of the masterminds of genetics and evolutionary theory . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Naudin ”.

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Portrait around 1887

Naudin received his doctorate in Paris in 1842 with Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire with a thesis on nightshade plants .

In 1852 Naudin published an essay " Philosophical considerations on species and diversity" (French: "Considérations philosophique sur l'espèce et la variété") by making hybrids responsible for the emergence of new species. After Charles Darwin published his work “ On the Origin of Species ” in 1859 , the French biologist Joseph Decaisne accused him of having discovered key elements of natural selection before him. In a traditional letter to Joseph Dalton Hooker , Darwin contradicted this assumption, since he could not find the words "natural selection" in Naudin's work.

In 1856 Naudin described several types of pumpkin , probably including the zucchini for the first time .

After the death of Gustave Adolphe Thuret , Naudin took over the management of the Jardin botanique de la villa Thuret , a botanical garden on the Côte d'Azur in Antibes in 1875 .

In 1887, together with Ferdinand von Mueller , Naudin published a handbook on the acclimatization and selection of exotic plants, a book that occupied a special place in the literature of French colony development.

Publications

Nouvelles recherches sur les caractères specifiques et les variétés des plantes du genre cucurbita (Eng .: New research on specific characteristics and varieties of plants of the genus Cucurbita ). In: Annales des Sciences Naturelles . Paris, 1856.
Manuel de l'acclimateur ou choix des plantes recommandées pour l'agriculture, l'industrie et la médecine (English: instructions for acclimatization or selection of plants recommended for agriculture, industry and medicine ) (together with Ferdinand von Mueller ). Antibes, 1887.

Individual evidence

^ Entry on Charles Victor Naudin in the Bibliothèque nationale de France . Online here .
^ Conway Zirkle: Natural Selection before the "Origin of Species" . In: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Volume 84, No. 1, 1941, p. 121.
^ Letter from Charles Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker . University of Cambridge (Darwin Correspondence Project). Online here .
^ Charles Victor Naudin: Nouvelles recherches sur les caractères specifiques et les variétés des plantes du genre cucurbita . In: Annales des Sciences Naturelles . Paris, 1856.
^ Michael A. Osborne: A Collaborative Dimension of the European Empires: Australian and French Acclimatization Societies and Intercolonial Scientific Co-operation . In: RW Home: International Science And National Scientific Identity - Australia between Britain and America . 1991, p. 110.

personal data
SURNAME	Naudin, Charles Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Naudin, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French biologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	August 14, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH	Autun
DATE OF DEATH	March 18, 1899
Place of death	Antibes

[1] Entry on Charles Victor Naudin in the Bibliothèque nationale de France . Online here .

[2] Conway Zirkle: Natural Selection before the "Origin of Species" . In: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Volume 84, No. 1, 1941, p. 121.

[3] Letter from Charles Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker . University of Cambridge (Darwin Correspondence Project). Online here .

[4] Charles Victor Naudin: Nouvelles recherches sur les caractères specifiques et les variétés des plantes du genre cucurbita . In: Annales des Sciences Naturelles . Paris, 1856.

[5] Michael A. Osborne: A Collaborative Dimension of the European Empires: Australian and French Acclimatization Societies and Intercolonial Scientific Co-operation . In: RW Home: International Science And National Scientific Identity - Australia between Britain and America . 1991, p. 110.