Louis Charles Émile Lortet
Louis Charles Émile Lortet was a French physician, botanist, zoologist and Egyptologist who was a native of Oullins.
He earned his medical doctorate in 1861, and his degree in natural sciences in 1867. He served as premier doyen at the Faculty of Medicine of Lyon from 1877 until 1906. Also, from 1868 to 1909, he was director of the natural history museum in Lyon.
Lortet is remembered for his scientific and zoological expeditions to the Middle East. He performed studies of mummified animals from the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt, and in 1880 took part in an excavation of a Phoenician necropolis.
Lortet was a member of numerous scientific societies, such as the Société de géographie de Lyon, being a founding member in 1858. Species with the epithet of lorteti are named in his honor; an example being the pufferfish species Carinotetraodon lorteti.Written works
- Faune momifiée de l'ancienne Égypte
- La vérité
- Recherches sur la vitesse du cours du sang dans les artères du cheval au moyen d’un nouvel hémadromographe, 1867
- La Syrie d'aujourd'hui. Voyages dans La Phénicie, Le Liban et La Judée
- Note sur le Rhizoprion bariensis de Jourdan,
- Passage des leucocytes a travers les membranes organiques
- Recherche sur les mastodontes et les faunas mammalogiques qui les accompagnent
- Les reptiles fossiles du bassin du Rhône
