Louis Lavauden (19 June 1881, in

Grenoble Grenoble ( ; ; or ; or ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Isère Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region ...

– 1 September 1935, in

Anjou, Isère Anjou () is a communes of France, commune in the Isère departments of France, department, region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, southeastern France. Geography Anjou is a commune located in Bas-Dauphiné, some 6 km east by south-east of Rouss ...

) was a French

zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...

and

forester A forester is a person who practises forest management and forestry, the science, art, and profession of managing forests. Foresters engage in a broad range of activities including ecological restoration and management of protected areas. Fores ...

. He was a student at the Institut agronomique et de l'Ecole forestière in Nancy, afterwards conducting zoological studies of the province

Dauphiné The Dauphiné ( , , ; or ; or ), formerly known in English as Dauphiny, is a former province in southeastern France, whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present departments of Isère, Drôme and Hautes-Alpes. The Dauphiné was ...

. In 1912–13 he performed research of the fauna in

Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

and

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

, and following

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, returned to Tunisia as a forester. In 1925 he took part in one of the first motorized crossings of the

Sahara The Sahara (, ) is a desert spanning across North Africa. With an area of , it is the largest hot desert in the world and the list of deserts by area, third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Ar ...

(from

Tunis Tunis (, ') is the capital city, capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. , it is the third-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casabl ...

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via

Lake Chad Lake Chad (, Kanuri language, Kanuri: ''Sádǝ'', ) is an endorheic freshwater lake located at the junction of four countries: Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, in western and central Africa respectively, with a catchment area in excess of . ...

). From 1928 he was stationed in

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, where he collected zoological specimens that included a number of

lemur Lemurs ( ; from Latin ) are Strepsirrhini, wet-nosed primates of the Superfamily (biology), superfamily Lemuroidea ( ), divided into 8 Family (biology), families and consisting of 15 genera and around 100 existing species. They are Endemism, ...

species.

René Ronsil René Henri Ronsil (18 April 1908, Ménilles – 17 October 1956, Louveciennes) was a French naturalist who specialised in ornithology especially the bibliography of bird literature. He was also an operatic tenor A tenor is a type of male sin ...

(1948) ''Bibliographie ornithologique française''. Tome I. Bibliographie. Paul Lechevalier, Paris, 534 p. Lavauden is credited with providing descriptions for several new mammal and avian species/subspecies. Many of his collections are housed at the natural history museum in Grenoble :fr:Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Grenoble. He was, from 1929, on the editorial committee of ''Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie'' :fr:Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie with its founder

Paul Paris Jean Ferdinand Paul Paris (16 August 1875 – 2 May 1938) was a French people, French naturalist and zoologist who specialised in ornithology. He was, in 1929, the founder of ''Alauda (journal), Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie'' and ...

and

Noël Mayaud Noël Mayaud (25 November 1899, Saumur - 2 May 1989, Saumur) was a French naturalist who specialised in ornithology. He was, from 1929, on the editorial committee of ''Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie'' :fr:Alauda, Revue internationa ...

Henri Heim de Balsac Henri Heim de Balsac (1 January 1899 – 28 November 1979) was a French zoologist. In 1937 Henri Heim de Balsac was awarded the Prix Savigny de l'Académie des sciences. In the following year, 1938, he was awarded the Prix Gadeau de Kerville ...

, Jacques de Chavigny,

Henri Jouard Henri Louis Ernest Jouard (16 May 1896, Santenay, Département Côte-d’Or; – 16 March 1938, Vence, Département Alpes-Maritimes) was a French lawyer and World War I soldier who was also an ornithologist. He was, from 1929, on the editorial c ...

Jacques Delamain Jacques Delamain (10 September 1874, Jarnac – 5 February 1953, Saint-Brice, Charente) was a French naturalist who specialised in ornithology. He was, from 1929, on the editorial committee of ' with its founder Paul Paris and Louis Lavaude ...

and

Paul Poty Paul Louis Poty (30 August 1889, Chagny, Saône-et-Loire- 10 February 1962, Louhans ) was a French naturalist who specialised in ornithology. He was, from 1929, on the editorial committee of ''Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie'' :fr:Ala ...

Selected publications

* ''Oiseaux'', 1924. * ''La Chasse et la faune cynègètique en Tunisie'', 1924. * ''Les vertèbrès du Sahara : èlèments de zoologie saharienne'', 1926. * ''Le Problème forestier colonial. Avec 7 photographies et 3 planches hors texte'', 1931. * ''Le problème forestier colonial'', 1931. ** Books by Lavauden that have been translated into English: * ''The colonial forest problem'', 1934. * ''The equatorial forest of Africa : its past, present and future'', 1937. He was, in 1929, a founder of ''Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie'' with

, Jacques de Chavigny,

and

References

External links

Museum - Grenoble
(biography) 1935 deaths 1881 births People from Grenoble French foresters 20th-century French zoologists {{forester-stub