Jean Victoire Audouin
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Jean Victoire Audouin (April 27, 1797 - November 9, 1841) was a French naturalist, entomologist and ornithologist.
Audouin was born in Paris and studied medicine. In 1824 he was appointed assistant to Pierre André Latreille as Professor of Entomology at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, and succeeded him in 1833. In 1838 he became a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
His principal work, Histoire des insectes nuisibles à la vigne (1842), was completed after his death by Henri Milne-Edwards and Émile Blanchard. His papers mostly appeared in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, which, with Adolphe Theodore Brongniart and Jean-Baptiste Dumas, he founded in 1824, and in the proceedings of the Société Entomologique de France, of which he was one of the founders in 1832.
Audouin also contributed to other branches of natural history. He co-authored the Dictionaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle (1822) and collaborated with Milne-Edwards in a study of marine animals in French inshore waters. He also completed Marie Jules César Savigny's ornithological section of Description de l'Egypte (1826).fr:Victor Audouin