Paul Auguste Danguy

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Paul Auguste Danguy (born August 27, 1862 in Gagny , Seine-et-Oise department , † February 5, 1942 in Paris ) was a French botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is "Danguy" .

Life

Danguy devoted himself to the natural sciences very early on . He passed his license in Paris and entered the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in 1885 as a scholarship holder . In January 1888 he became taxidermist , in 1913 deputy director and in 1928, when he retired, deputy honorary director in the laboratory for phanerogams , which was headed by Édouard Bureau .

Danguy's interest was in the paleobotany and botany of the French colonies. His more than forty writings, some of which he published with Édouard Bureau, Henri Lecomte and Jean-Henri Humbert , deal with the families Stylidiaceae and Hydrophylloideae from Indochina , Central Asia , Siberia , the Kerguelen and Madagascar . Danguy published the first scientific descriptions of the botanical genera Decarydendron , Hedycaryopsis , Schrameckia , Terminaliopsis and Thouvenotia as well as numerous species. In 1922 he was co-author of the work Madagascar: les bois de la forêt d'Analamazaotra by Henri Lecomte.

In 1888 he became a member of the Société botanique de France , in which he later became secretary (1891) and vice-president (1922).

At the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Danguy classified the herbaria (including the plants of Madagascar) and led public excursions, during which his knowledge of Parisian flora was greatly appreciated.

Dedication names and honors

The genus Danguyodrypetes from the Putranjivaceae family was named in Danguy's honor by Jacques Désiré Leandri . In 1929 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

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SURNAME Danguy, Paul Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French botanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Gagny , Seine-et-Oise department
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1942
Place of death Paris