Charles Isidore Douin

Charles Isidore Douin (1858 – 1944) was a French bryologist who was a native of Bouville, Eure-et-Loir.[1]

Charles Isidore Douin
Born28 February 1858 
Bouville 
Died7 June 1944  (aged 86)
Chartres 
OccupationBotanist 
Awards
  • Prix de Coincy (1920) 

Biography

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]

References
  • Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia.
  1. Fakultät für Biologie und Psychologie Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften Department of Systematic Botany
  2. Google Books Muscinées d'Eure-et-Loir
  3. BFNA_ProvPubl Bryophyte Flora of North America, Provisional Publication, Douinia
  4. "Douinia (C.N.Jensen) H.Buch". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
  5. IPNI.  Douin.


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