Auguste Louis Brot

[2] After several years of studies in Zurich, Paris, and Berlin, he earned the degree of Doctor in Medicine in 1845.

Soon he became deeply interested in natural history, abandoned medicine, returned to Geneva and became a malacologist, with a special interest in terrestrial and aquatic molluscs.

[1] For over 40 years he was associated with the Natural History Museum of Geneva.

[2][1] He was an elected correspondent (1887) of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

[3] He is a conchological taxon authority and the namesake of the Brotia genus of freshwater snails.