Louis Companyo

Louis Companyo (born in Céret in 1781 and died in Perpignan in 1871) was a French physician and naturalist.

Louis Companyo was a founder and director of the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Perpignan and wrote Histoire Naturelle du département des Pyrénées-Orientales. Perpignan, 1861–1864, the first book on the natural history of the Pyrenees when over eighty years old. The 3 volumes cover geography, geology, and paleontology (Volume 1), botany (Volume 2), zoology and entomology (Volume 3).

External links

Louis Companyo in French.

References

Constantin, R. 1992 Memorial des Coléopteristes Français. Bull. liaison Assoc. Col. reg. parisienne, Paris (Suppl. 14).

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 204157672 ISNI: 0000 0001 3898 5202 SUDOC: 144697130 BNF: cb10704559c (data)

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