Louis Companyo
French scientist
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| Intro | French scientist | |
| Places | France | |
| is | Zoologist Physician Entomologist | |
| Work field | Biology Healthcare | |
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| Birth | Céret | |
| Death | Perpignan |
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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).