Audouin was born in
Paris and was educated in the field of
medicine. In 1824 he was appointed assistant to
Pierre André Latreille, professor of entomology at the
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, where in 1833 he became Latreille's successor. In 1838 he became a member of the
French Academy of Sciences. His principal work,
Histoire des insectes nuisibles à la vigne (1842), was completed after his death by
Henri Milne-Edwards and
Émile Blanchard. Many of his papers appeared in the
Annales des sciences naturelles, which, with
Adolphe Theodore Brongniart and
Jean-Baptiste Dumas, he founded in 1824, as well as in the proceedings of the
Société entomologique de France, of which he was one of the founders in 1832. In 1833, he was elected a foreign member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Audouin also contributed to other branches of
natural history. With Brongniart and
Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent, he was co-author of the ''Dictionnaire Classique d'Histoire Naturelle'', and one new species of
frog. In 1843,
mycologist David Gruby named the fungal species
Microsporum audouinii after him.
Audouin's gull (
Larus audouinii) is a species of bird named in his honour, as is the red alga
Audouinella, and in the French language, the term ''poche copulatrice d'Audouin'' (the copulatory pouch of Audouin) is another name for the
spermatheca. ==Publications==