ini ally again in charge of the botany course Phycological Trailblazer in the Faculty of Sciences at the University of No. 38 Bordeaux, and later he became professor there. It was at Bordeaux where he spent the Camille Sauvageau greater part of his professional career. The early phase of his career was (originally printed in the Phycological newsle er. 2013. spent in studying aqua c flowering plants Vol. 49 No. 1) (Potamageton, Zostera, Cymodocea, Halodule, and Phyllospadix) as well as The illustrious career of Camille bacteriology, fungi and fungal diseases. It was Sauvageau (Fig. 1), who made some not un l 1892 when he published his first landmark discoveries on the life histories of paper on brown algae. In the same year he brown algae and achieved remarkable also published on Nostoc and on freshwater success for his mes, deserves to be included algae collected in Algeria. in this series. His studies So from 1892 onward, his of algae were only a part a en on was directed of the full range of his toward the brown algae. botanical, mycological, He received guidance and physiological from the eminent Édouard interests. Camille- Bornet in his first efforts at François Sauvageau was studying small epiphy c born on 12 May, 1861 in brown algae. He was Angers, Maire-et-Loire, especially drawn toward France. He earned the making observa ons on Bachelor of Sciences reproduc on and life degree from the histories in brown algae. University of Rennes in In me culous detail, 1879, the licen ate’s Sauvageau (1898a, 1929) degrees in physical described his a empts, sciences (1882) and both his successes and his natural sciences (1884) failures, in making from the University of “expedi ons” and in Montpellier, and finally establishing cultures. He the doctorate degree in spent me in the natural sciences from the mid-1890s on the north University of Paris in 1891. coast of Spain, collec ng Fig. 1. Camille Sauvageau [from Dangeard, Career-wise, at first he 1936] and his signature. at Gijón, Ribadeo, San had low-level jobs such as Vicente de la Barquera, and preparator for the botany La Coruña, a very course in the Faculty of Sciences in picturesque coastline but then difficult to Montpellier, as a teacher at a secondary traverse because of the lack of a road parallel school in Bordeaux, and as an adjunct to the coast (Dangeard, 1937). He also professor of the Faculty of Sciences in Lyon. ventured out to Tenerife in the Canary Islands In 1898 he became in charge of the botany and to Algeria to carry out his studies. Back in course of the Faculty of Sciences at Dijon, France he frequented coastal sites such as then later professor there. In 1901 he was Cherbourg, Guéthary, and Roscoff. He would
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