Pierre Allorge (12 April 1891 – 21 January 1944) was a French

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

born in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

. His wife, Valentine Allorge (1888–1977) was a noted bryologist. He studied

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in Paris, obtaining his doctorate with a thesis titled ''Les Associations végétales du

Vexin Vexin () is an historical county of northwestern France. It covers a verdant plateau on the right bank (north) of the Seine running roughly east to west between Pontoise and Romilly-sur-Andelle (about 20 km from Rouen), and north to south ...

français''. In 1933 he became chair of cryptogamy at the

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. In 1937 he was appointed president of the

Société botanique de France The Société botanique de France (SBF) is a French learned society founded on 23 April 1854. At its inaugural meeting it stated its purpose as "to contribute to the progress of botany and related sciences and to facilitate, by all means at its di ...

. In 1924 he founded the journal ''Revue algologique'' with

Gontran Hamel Gontran Georges Henri Hamel (1883–1944) was a French phycologist. In 1927 he earned his doctorate in natural sciences with a thesis on the red algae genera ''Acrochaetium'' and ''Rhodochorton''. He is known for research performed in the "Laborato ...

(1883–1944).
Cryptogamie

Written works

* ''Sur quelques groupements aquatiques et hygrophyles des Alpes Briançonnais'', 1925 – On some aquatic and hygrophilous groups of the

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Alps. * ''Histoire ou peuplement de la Corse : étude biogéographique'', 1926 – History/settlement of

Corsica Corsica ( , Upper , Southern ; it, Corsica; ; french: Corse ; lij, Còrsega; sc, Còssiga) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is the fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of ...

biogeographical Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time. Organisms and biological communities often vary in a regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, i ...

study. * ''Contribution à la flore hépaticologique des îles Açores'', 1938 – Contributions to the hepaticological flora of the

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. * ''Essai de bryogéographie de la péninsule Ibérique'', 1947 – Bryogeographical essay on the

Iberian peninsula The Iberian Peninsula (), ** * Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica'' ** ** * french: Péninsule Ibérique * mwl, Península Eibérica * eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, defi ...

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