Pierre François Keraudren

Pierre François Keraudren (15 May 1769 - 16 August 1858) was a scientist and physician in the French Navy. He was a native of Brest.

From 1813 to 1845 he served as Inspector General to the Health Department of the Navy. Keraudren was a member of the Académie de Médecine, a consulting physician to Louis-Philippe and a member of the Moscow Society of Naturalists. He also belonged to medical, literary and scientific societies of Madrid, Louvain, Bologna, Orleans, Marseille, Toulon and Rochefort. On July 10, 1816 he was knighted in the Ordre de Saint-Michel.^[1]

His name has been honoured in several ways:

• Keraudren Island is located west of Australia at .
• Cape Keraudren in the north-west of Australia was charted in 1801 and is located at at the southern end of Eighty Mile Beach. Keraudren served as the ship's official physician during this expedition.
• Cape Keraudren at the north of Hunter Island in the north-west of Tasmania at .
• The Trumpet Manucode, a species of birds found in New Guinea, was given the scientific name Manucodia keraudrenii by René-Primevère Lesson and Prosper Garnot in 1826.
• He also appears to be the person after whom the gastropods Oxygyrus keraudrenii (Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, 1817) and Pterotrachea keraudrenii (Fortune Eydoux and Louis François Auguste Souleyet, 1832) were named.

List of works

• "De la fièvre jaune observée aux Antilles [et] sur les vaisseaux du roi" Keraudren, Pierre François. - Paris, 1823
• "Mémoire sur les causes des maladies des Marins, et sur les soins à prendre pour converser leur santé dans les ports et à la mer" Keraudren, Pierre François. - Seconde édition. - A Paris, 1824
• "Du Cholera-Morbus de l'Inde ou Mordéchi" Keraudren, Pierre François. - Paris, 1824
• "Mémoire Sur Le Choléra-Morbus De L'inde" Keraudren, Pierre François. - Paris : Baillière, 1831^[2]

See also

• European and American voyages of scientific exploration

References