Henri Auguste Ménégaux (17 May 1857 – 15 July 1937) was a French

ornithologist Ornithology, from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (''órnis''), meaning "bird", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is a branch of zoology dedicated to the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related discip ...

and

malacologist Malacology, from Ancient Greek μαλακός (''malakós''), meaning "soft", and λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (molluscs or mollusks), the second-largest ...

born in

Audincourt Audincourt () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. History Audincourt belonged to the County of Montbéliard which became part of France in 1793, during the French Revolutionary War ...

. He was based at the

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History ( ; abbr. MNHN) is the national natural history museum of France and a of higher education part of Sorbonne University. The main museum, with four galleries, is located in Paris, France, within the Ja ...

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. From 1910, with Louis Denise (1863-1914), he was publisher of the

journal A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization *Diary, a record of personal secretive thoughts and as open book to personal therapy or used to feel connected to onesel ...

, ''Revue Française d'Ornithologie Scientifique et Pratique''. In 1899 he supported his graduate thesis at the Sorbonne with a dissertation on marine

bivalves Bivalvia () or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of aquatic molluscs (marine and freshwater) that have laterally compressed soft bodies enclosed by a calcified exoskeleton consis ...

titled ''Recherches sur la circulation des Lamellibranches marins''. In 1901 he replaced

Eugène de Pousargues Eugène de Pousargues (21 October 1859 – 24 January 1901) was a French zoologist born in Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais). From 1885 he was an assistant to Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900), and served as préparateur at the ''Laboratoire de Mamma ...

(1859-1901) as assistant to

Émile Oustalet Jean-Frédéric Émile Oustalet (24 August 1844 – 23 October 1905) was a French zoologist who contributed greatly to ornithology. Oustalet was born at Montbéliard, in the department of Doubs (department), Doubs. He studied at the Ecole des Hau ...

(1844-1905) at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (mammals and birds). Later he became deputy director of the laboratory headed by

Édouard Louis Trouessart Édouard Louis Trouessart (25 August 1842 – 30 June 1927) was a French zoologist born in Angers. He studied military medicine in Strasbourg, but was forced to leave school due to serious health problems. In 1864 he started work as ''préparateu ...

(1842-1927). His studies included birds collected by the French Antarctic Expedition commanded by

Jean-Baptiste Charcot Jean-Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot, better known in France as Commandant Charcot, (15 July 1867 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris – 16 September 1936 at sea (30 miles north-west of Reykjavik, Iceland), was a French scientist, medical doctor ...

(1867-1936). In 1912 he became a founder of the ''Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux'' (League for the Protection of Birds).

Written works

* ''Les oiseaux de France'' (Birds of France); four volumes * ''Etude des especes critiques et des types du groupe des Passereaux tracheophones de l'Amerique tropicale appartenant aux collections du Museum'', 1906 * ''Voyage de M. Guy Babault dans l'Afrique orientale anglaise et dans l'Ouganda : etude d'une collection d'oiseaux de l'Afrique orientale anglaise et de l'Ouganda'', 1923.

References

* * ''Biographical information based on an equivalent article at the

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'', namely: Philippe Jaussaud & Edward R. Brygoo (2004). From the Garden at the Museum in 516 biographies . National Museum of Natural History in Paris, 630 p. 1857 births 1937 deaths French ornithologists French malacologists People from Doubs National Museum of Natural History (France) people {{ornithologist-stub