Gaspard Adolphe Chatin

Gaspard Adolphe Chatin (30 November 1813, Tullins – 13 January 1901)[1] was a French physician, mycologist and botanist who was born in Tullins Isère, and died in Les Essarts-le-Roi.

He studied at the Faculté de Médecine in Paris and received his doctorate in May 1840.

He taught botany at the Ecole Superieure de Pharmacie, which he directed from 1874.

In April 1886, there were student riots at the school, and his dismissal was demanded.

He was the father of the botanist and zoologist Joannes Charles Melchior Chatin (1847–1912).