Louis Michel François Doyère

Louis Michel François Doyère
Born	28 January 1811 Saint-Michel-des-Essartiers, Calvados, France
Died	12 July 1863 Bastia, Corsica
Occupation(s)	Zoology, agronomy
Employer	National Museum of Natural History, France

Louis Michel François Doyère (born 28 January 1811 in Saint-Michel-des-Essartiers, Calvados; died 12 July 1863 in Bastia, Corsica) was a French zoologist and agronomist.

He was among the first zoologists to study tardigrades, describing species including Milnesium tardigradum in 1840.[1]

Life

After obtaining his degree in science, Doyère became a professor in Paris. In 1838, he translated into French the 1836 book Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland. Two years later, he published with Dezobry and Magdeleine, a work entitled: Lessons in Natural History.

From 1841 to 1842, he was a preparatory assistant at the laboratory of anatomy and natural history of Man, at the French National Museum of Natural History.^[citation needed] In 1842, he defended his thesis at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris on the biology of tardigrades, including their ability to survive complete desiccation. In the historian of science Hartmut Greven's words, "The unanimous opinion of all later researchers is that Doyère's dissertation Memoire sur les Tardigrades is an indisputable milestone in tardigradology".[2]

He went into teaching, first at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris, and then at the Lycée Bonaparte. From 1850 to 1852, he held the chair of zoology applied to agriculture at the Agronomic Institute of Versailles;^[citation needed] then that of natural history at the École centrale des arts et manufactures.[3] Later, he published works on silage.

Works

• 1838: La Géologie et la minéralogie dans leurs rapports avec la théologie naturelle, translation of the 1836 book Geology and Mineralogy considered with reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (2 volumes, Crochard, Paris).
• 1852: Recherches sur l'alucite des céréales, l'étendue de ses ravages et les moyens de les faire cesser, suivies de quelques résultats relatifs à l'ensilage des grains (Dusacq, Paris).

References

1. "ITIS standard report: Milnesium tardigradum Doyère, 1840". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 13 August 2012.
2. Greven, Hartmut (2018). "From Johann August Ephraim Goeze to Ernst Marcus: A Ramble Through the History of Early Tardigrade Research (1773 Until 1929)". In Schill, R. (ed.). Water Bears: The Biology of Tardigrades. Zoological Monographs. Vol. 2. Springer.
3. "Les premiers professeurs" (PDF). École centrale des arts et manufactures. Retrieved 27 December 2024.

Sources

• Philippe Jaussaud & Édouard R. Brygoo (2004). Du Jardin au Muséum en 516 biographies. Muséum national d’histoire naturelle de Paris : 630 p. ISBN 2-85653-565-8