Charles Isidore Douin | |
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Born | 28 February 1858
Bouville |
Died | 7 June 1944
(aged 86) Chartres |
Occupation | Botanist |
Awards |
Charles Isidore Douin (1858 – 1944) was a French bryologist who was a native of Bouville, Eure-et-Loir. [1]
He taught school in Chartres, and was the author of a highly regarded work on mosses and liverworts titled Nouvelle flore des mousses et des hépatiques pour la détermination facile des espèces (1892). He also published a book involving bryology of Eure-et-Loir, Muscinées d'Eure-et-Loir (1906). [2]
The liverwort genus Douinia from the family Scapaniaceae is named in his honor in 1928. [3] [4]