Maurice Charles Pierre Langeron (3 January 1874, in

Dijon Dijon (, ; ; in Burgundian language (Oïl), Burgundian: ''Digion'') is a city in and the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Côte-d'Or Departments of France, department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in eas ...

– 27 June 1950, in

Bourg-la-Reine Bourg-la-Reine () is a Communes of France, commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris. History In 1792, during the French Revolution, Bourg-la-Reine (meaning "Town of the Queen") w ...

) was a French

mycologist Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their taxonomy, genetics, biochemical properties, and use by humans. Fungi can be a source of tinder, food, traditional medicine, as well as entheogens, poison, and ...

, bryologist and

paleobotanist Paleobotany or palaeobotany, also known as paleophytology, is the branch of botany dealing with the recovery and identification of plant fossils from geological contexts, and their use for the biological reconstruction of past environments (pale ...

. He studied natural sciences at the

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History ( ; abbr. MNHN) is the national natural history museum of France and a of higher education part of Sorbonne University. The main museum, with four galleries, is located in Paris, France, within the Ja ...

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

. In 1930 he was named director of the department of mycology in the laboratory of

parasitology Parasitology is the study of parasites, their host (biology), hosts, and the relationship between them. As a List of biology disciplines, biological discipline, the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in questio ...

at the faculty of medicine in Paris. Two years later, he became adjoint-director in the laboratory of parasitology at the

École pratique des hautes études The (), abbreviated EPHE, is a French postgraduate top level educational institution, a . EPHE is a constituent college of the Université PSL (together with ENS Ulm, Paris Dauphine or Ecole des Mines). The college is closely linked to É ...

. In 1942 he was appointed director of research at the

Centre national de la recherche scientifique The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

(CNRS).Service des Archives de l'Institut Pasteur
(chronological biography) In 1933 he became a member of the

Société de biologie The Société de biologie () is a learned society founded in Paris in 1848. The society was conceived during the French Revolution of 1848. The members of the society held regular meetings and published the proceedings in a new scientific journal. ...

. With

Émile Brumpt Alexandre Joseph Émile Brumpt (10 March 1877, in Paris – 8 July 1951) was a French parasitologist. He studied zoology and parasitology in Paris, obtaining his degree in science in 1901, and his medical doctorate in 1906. In 1919 he succeeded ...

and

Maurice Neveu-Lemaire Maurice Neveu-Lemaire (24 September 1872 in Montbéliard – 4 May 1951 in Paris) was a French physician and parasitologist. After receiving his degree in natural sciences (1895), he spent several years as an intern in marine laboratories at Banyu ...

, he founded the journal ''Les Annales de Parasitologie humaine et comparée'', now continued as ''

Parasite Parasitism is a Symbiosis, close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives (at least some of the time) on or inside another organism, the Host (biology), host, causing it some harm, and is Adaptation, adapted str ...

''. The

dermatophyte Dermatophyte (from Greek '' derma'' "skin" ( GEN ''dermatos'') and ''phyton'' "plant") is a common label for a group of fungus of '' Arthrodermataceae'' that commonly causes skin disease in animals and humans. Traditionally, these anamorphic ( ...

:genus ''Langeronia'' (Vanbreus., 1950) is named after him.

Written works

In 1965 his ''Précis de mycologie'' was translated into English and published as "Outline of mycology". Other noted works by Langeron include: * ''Muscinées de la Côte-d'Or : Études géographiques : Catalogue des muscinées de la Côte d'Or'', 1898 –

Bryophyte Bryophytes () are a group of embryophyte, land plants (embryophytes), sometimes treated as a taxonomic Division (taxonomy), division referred to as Bryophyta ''Sensu#Common qualifiers, sensu lato'', that contains three groups of non-vascular pla ...

s of

Côte-d'Or Côte-d'Or () is a département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of Northeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 534,124.

. * ''Contributions a l'étude de la flore fossile de Sézanne'', 1899–1902 – Contributions to the study of fossil flora of

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. * ''Le genre Aleurites Forst (Euphorbiacées) systématique, anatomie, pharmacologie'', 1902 – The genus ''

Aleurites ''Aleurites'' is a small genus of arborescent flowering plants in the Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1776. It is native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Papuasia, and Queensland. It is also reportedly naturalized o ...

'' (

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); systematics, anatomy and

pharmacology Pharmacology is the science of drugs and medications, including a substance's origin, composition, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, therapeutic use, and toxicology. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur betwee ...

. * ''Études sur les végétaux fossiles du Trieu de Leval (Hainaut)'', 1907 – Studies of fossil flora of Trieu de Leval ( Hainaut). * ''Précis de microscopie; technique, expérimentation, diagnostic'', 1913 – Outline of

microscopy Microscopy is the technical field of using microscopes to view subjects too small to be seen with the naked eye (objects that are not within the resolution range of the normal eye). There are three well-known branches of microscopy: optical mic ...

; techniques, experimentation, diagnostics. * ''Coprologie microscopique'', 1922 – Microscopy associated with

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.WorldCat Identities
(publications)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Langeron, Maurice 1874 births 1950 deaths Scientists from Dijon French mycologists French bryologists Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research