Louis Companyo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Louis Companyo

French scientist

Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1781

Place of Birth: Céret, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

Date of Death: 10-Sep-1871

Profession: physician, lepidopterist, botanist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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 [1] 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).