Édouard Louis Chavannes

Édouard Louis Chavannes (1805–1861) was a Swiss botanist and philanthropist. Son of César Louis, pastor, and Adrienne Charlotte Renz, he studied theology at the academies of Lausanne and Geneva, where he was a pupil of the botanist Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle.

With de Candolle, he studied the antirrhineae (wolf's mouths) and published a monograph to them (Monographie des antirrhinées) in 1833. He published observations on the biological properties of starch. C. and worked in London with the botanist Robert Brown.

In the University of Lausanne, the existence of a Natural History Society influenced the development of Botany, of which Édouard Louis Chavannes, became its first Associate Professor from 1835 to 1844.

Chavannes remained active in the Protestant church, and was a member of the synod for the Free Church. París & Lausanne, 190 pp. 1840. Sommaire du cours des sciences physiques donné à l'Ecole normale, manuscript, 264 pp.

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Eponymy

Genus Apocynaceae: Chavannesia A.DC.

Species Scrophulariaceae: Antirrhinum × chavannesii Rothm.