Amédée Galzin
Amédée Galzin was a French veterinarian and mycologist.
In 1878 he obtained his degree from the veterinary college in Toulouse. From 1879 to 1905, he served as a military veterinarian, becoming a knight of the Legion of Honour in 1899.
With Abbé Hubert Bourdot, he was co-author of a series of publications involving Hymenomycetes native to France; all parts being published in the Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France. With Bourdot, he also wrote Heterobasidiae nondum descriptae.
With Bourdot, he was the taxonomic authority of the fungi genus Oxyporus, as well as of numerous mycological species.
