Auguste Ménégaux

Who was Auguste Ménégaux?

Henri Auguste Ménégaux was a French ornithologist and malacologist born in Audincourt. He was based at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. In 1909 he was a co-founder with Louis Denise, and subsequent editor, of the journal Revue Française d'Ornithologie.

In 1899 he supported his graduate thesis at the Sorbonne with a dissertation on marine bivalves titled Recherches sur la circulation des Lamellibranches marins. In 1901 he replaced Eugène de Pousargues as assistant to Émile Oustalet at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Later he became deputy director of the laboratory headed by Édouard Louis Trouessart.

His studies included birds collected by the French Antarctic Expedition commanded by Jean-Baptiste Charcot. In 1912 he became a founder of the Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux.