Édouard Bureau

Who was Édouard Bureau?

Louis Édouard Bureau was a French physician and botanist.

Édouard Bureau began his medical studies in Nantes in 1848, where he held the post of director of the Muséum de Nantes. He completed his medical degree in Paris in 1852. In 1872 he obtained a post as a naturalist assistant at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in the laboratory of Adolphe Brongniart, where he replaced Edmond Tulasne. In 1874 he received appointment to the new botany post dealing with classification. Beginning in 1875, he was a director of the herbariums at the museum. He was a professor at the museum from 1874 until he retired in 1905. Adrien Franchet was his assistant in the 80's. He was succeeded by Paul Henri Lecomte.

Bureau was one of the founders of the Société entomologique de France and was the chairman in 1875, 1883, 1902 and 1905. In 1895 he was elected to the French Academy of Medicine. From 1895 to 1917, he was a member of the Comité travaux of the historiques et scientifiques.

Bureau was a significant contributor to Baillon’s Dictionnaire de Botanique.