Louis Charles Trabut

Who was Louis Charles Trabut?

Louis Charles Trabut was a French botanist and physician who was a native of Chambéry, department of Savoie. He is remembered for his work involving the flora of Algeria and Tunisia.

Trabut was a professor of natural history at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Algiers, and also a consultant physician to the Hôpital Mustapha. With botanist Jules Aimé Battandier, he published several works on Algerian flora, that included the following:

Flore de l'Algérie.

L'Algérie, le sol et les habitants, flore, faune, geologie, anthropologie, ressources agricoles et économiques.

Flore analytique et synoptique de l'Algérie et de la Tunisie.

He has several plant species named after him, such as the eucalyptus species Eucalyptus trabutii.