Pierre Clement Augustin Dangeard (23 November 1862, Ségrie – 10 November 1947, Ségrie) was a botanist and mycologist known for his investigations of sexual reproduction in fungi. He was the father of botanist

Pierre Dangeard Pierre Jean-Louis Dangeard (18 February 1895 in Poitiers, France – 23 August 1970 in Pléneuf-Val-André, France) was a French Botany, botanist. He was the son of botanist and Mycology, mycologist Pierre Augustin Dangeard and brother of geo ...

(1895–1970) and

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Louis Dangeard (1898–1987). Beginning in 1883, he worked as a ''préparateur'' to the faculty at Caen, earning his doctorate in 1886. Following graduation, he served as chief of ''travaux de botanique''. In 1891 he was appointed associate professor of botany at the

University of Poitiers The University of Poitiers (UP; french: Université de Poitiers) is a public university located in Poitiers, France. It is a member of the Coimbra Group. It is multidisciplinary and contributes to making Poitiers the city with the highest studen ...

, later relocating to

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as a lecturer at the faculty of sciences. In 1921 he attained the title of professor in Paris. In 1887 he founded the scientific journal ''Le Botaniste''. He was the member of several learned societies, such as the

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(1917), the

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(president 1914–18) and the Société mycologique de France. He was the circumscriber of the mycological genus ''Amoebophilus''.Mushroom the Journal
biography/bibliography He was honoured in 1899, when botanists

Pier Andrea Saccardo Pier Andrea Saccardo (23 April 1845 in Treviso, Treviso – 12 February 1920 in Padua) was an Italian botanist and mycologist. Life Saccardo studied at the Lyceum in Venice, and then at the Technical Institute of the University of Padua wher ...

and

Paul Sydow Paul Sydow (1 November 1851 in Kallies – 26 February 1925 in Sophienstädt near Ruhlsdorf) was a German mycologist and lichenologist, father of Hans Sydow (1879–1946). He worked as a schoolmaster in Berlin. With his son, Hans, he authored ...

published '' Dangeardiella'', which is a

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in the class Dothideomycetes.http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/genusrecord.asp?RecordID=1410 Dangeardiella

Published works

* ''Mémoire sur la reproduction sexuelle des Basidiomycètes'', in Le Botaniste 4 pp. 119 - 181. (1894) – Report on sexual reproduction in

Basidiomycetes Basidiomycota () is one of two large divisions that, together with the Ascomycota, constitute the subkingdom Dikarya (often referred to as the "higher fungi") within the kingdom Fungi. Members are known as basidiomycetes. More specifically, Ba ...

. * ''La reproduction sexuelle des Ascomycètes'', in Le Botaniste 4:1 pp. 21 - 58. (1894) – Sexual reproduction of Ascomycetes. * ''Les ancêtres des champignons supérieurs'', in Le Botaniste 9 pp. 1 - 263, (1903) – The ancestors of the higher fungi. * ''Recherches sur le développement du périthèce chez les Ascomycètes'', in Le Botaniste 9 pp. 59 - 303 (1907) – Research on the development of the

perithecium An ascocarp, or ascoma (), is the fruiting body ( sporocarp) of an ascomycete phylum fungus. It consists of very tightly interwoven hyphae and millions of embedded asci, each of which typically contains four to eight ascospores. Ascocarps are mos ...

in Ascomycetes. * ''L'origine du périthèce chez les Ascomycètes'', in Le Botaniste 10 pp. 1 - 385, (1907) – The origin of the perithecium in Ascomycetes. * ''Observations sur la famille des Labyrinthulées et sur quelques autres parasites des Cladophora'', in Le Botaniste 24:3 pp. 217 - 258, (1932) – Observations on the family Labyrinthules and some other parasites of

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References

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, sources listed as: ** Christophe Charle et Eva Telkes (1989). Les Professeurs de la Faculté des sciences de Paris. Dictionnaire biographique (1901-1939), Institut national de recherche pédagogique (Paris) et CNRS Éditions, collection Histoire biographique de l’Enseignement : 270 p. () ** Jean Dhombres (dir.) (1995). Aventures scientifiques. Savants en Poitou-Charentes du XVIe au XXe siècle. Les éditions de l’Actualité Poitou-Charentes (Poitiers) : 262 p. () {{DEFAULTSORT:Dangeard, Pierre-Augustin 1862 births 1947 deaths 19th-century French botanists French mycologists Members of the French Academy of Sciences People from Sarthe University of Poitiers faculty University of Caen Normandy alumni 20th-century French botanists