French physician and botanist
Antoine Magnin (15 February 1848, Trévoux – 15 April 1926, Beynost) was a French physician and botanist.
Biography.
He served as an interne at the "Hôpitaux de Lyon", later becoming a professor of botany to the medical faculty at Lyon. From 1881 to 1884, he was director of the Jardin botanique de Lyon, located in the Parc de la Tête d'Or. He later relocated to Besançon, where he was named dean at the faculty of sciences.
From 1873, he was a member of the Société d'études scientifiques de Lyon and the Société linnéenne de Lyon. In 1908 he was named president of the Société botanique de France.
He was the author of hundreds of scientific articles, 64 of them being published in the "Annales de la Société Botanique de Lyon". The lichenized fungi genus "Magninia" (synonym "Lecanora", family Lecanoraceae) in named in his honor.
Selected works.
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