Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Prof. P. A. C. Dangeard

1948; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 161; Issue: 4101 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/161878a0

1476-4687

B. Barnes,

Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna

PIERRE AUGUSTIN CLEMENT DANGEARD was born at Ségrie-Vernie (Sarthe) on November 23, 1862. The son of a peasant stock, from which he doubtless inherited his individualism and determination, he entered l‘Ecole Normale Primaire d‘Alencon in 1878, becoming a school-teacher three years later. In 1883, his botanical aptitude having attracted the attention of Moriére, then professor of botany at Caen, he was appointed demonstrator there, and lecturer in 1886. He moved to Poitiers in 1891, and was promoted professor in 1894. In 1908 he left Poitiers for Paris, where, in 1924, he succeeded G. Bonnier in the chair of general botany at the Sorbonne. He retired to the family property at Ségrie in 1944, and, after two years of troublesome illness, died there on November 10, 1947.