Maurice Charles Pierre Langeron (3 January 1874, in

Dijon Dijon (, , ) (dated) * it, Digione * la, Diviō or * lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920. The earlies ...

– 27 June 1950, in Bourg-la-Reine) was a French mycologist, bryologist and

paleobotanist Paleobotany, which is also spelled as palaeobotany, is the branch of botany dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts, and their use for the biological reconstruction of past environments (paleogeogr ...

. He studied natural sciences at the

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, 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), ma ...

. In 1930 he was named director of the department of mycology in the laboratory of parasitology at the faculty of medicine in Paris. Two years later, he became adjoint-director in the laboratory of parasitology at the

École pratique des hautes études The École pratique des hautes études (), abbreviated EPHE, is a Grand Établissement in Paris, France. It is highly selective, and counted among France's most prestigious research and higher education institutions. It is a constituent college o ...

. In 1942 he was appointed director of research at the

Centre national de la recherche scientifique The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,63 ...

(CNRS).Service des Archives de l'Institut Pasteur
(chronological biography) In 1933 he became a member of the

Société de biologie The Société de biologie is a learned society founded in Paris in 1848. The society was conceived during the French Revolution of 1848. The members of the society held regular meetings and published the proceedings in a new scientific journal. The ...

. With

Émile Brumpt Alexandre Joseph Émile Brumpt (10 March 1877, in Paris – 8 July 1951) was a French parasitologist. He studied zoology and parasitology in Paris, obtaining his degree in science in 1901, and his medical doctorate in 1906. In 1919 he succeeded ...

and

Maurice Neveu-Lemaire Maurice Neveu-Lemaire (24 September 1872 in Montbéliard – 4 May 1951 in Paris) was a French physician and parasitologist. After receiving his degree in natural sciences (1895), he spent several years as an intern in marine laboratories at Banyul ...

, he founded the journal ''Les Annales de Parasitologie humaine et comparée'', now continued as ''

Parasite Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has ...

''. The

dermatophyte Dermatophyte (from Greek '' derma'' "skin" ( GEN ''dermatos'') and ''phyton'' "plant") is a common label for a group of fungus of ''Arthrodermataceae'' that commonly causes skin disease in animals and humans. Traditionally, these anamorphic (a ...

:genus ''Langeronia'' (Vanbreus., 1950) is named after him.

Written works

In 1965 his ''Précis de mycologie'' was translated into English and published as "Outline of mycology". Other noted works by Langeron include: * ''Muscinées de la Côte-d'Or : Études géographiques : Catalogue des muscinées de la Côte d'Or'', 1898 –

Bryophyte The Bryophyta s.l. are a proposed taxonomic division containing three groups of non-vascular land plants (embryophytes): the liverworts, hornworts and mosses. Bryophyta s.s. consists of the mosses only. They are characteristically limited in s ...

s of Côte-d'Or. * ''Contributions a l'étude de la flore fossile de Sézanne'', 1899–1902 – Contributions to the study of fossil flora of

Sézanne Sézanne () is a commune in the Marne department and Grand Est region in north-eastern France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions an ...

. * ''Le genre Aleurites Forst (Euphorbiacées) systématique, anatomie, pharmacologie'', 1902 – The genus ''

Aleurites ''Aleurites'' is a small genus of arborescent flowering plants in the Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1776. It is native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Papuasia, and Queensland. It is also reportedly naturalized o ...

'' (

Euphorbiaceae Euphorbiaceae, the spurge family, is a large family of flowering plants. In English, they are also commonly called euphorbias, which is also the name of a genus in the family. Most spurges, such as '' Euphorbia paralias'', are herbs, but some, ...

); systematics, anatomy and pharmacology. * ''Études sur les végétaux fossiles du Trieu de Leval (Hainaut)'', 1907 – Studies of fossil flora of Trieu de Leval ( Hainaut). * ''Précis de microscopie; technique, expérimentation, diagnostic'', 1913 – Outline of microscopy; techniques, experimentation, diagnostics. * ''Coprologie microscopique'', 1922 – Microscopy associated with coprology.WorldCat Identities
(publications)

References

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