Gustave Campiche (August 1809, La Sagne – 1871, Sainte-Croix in the canton of Vaud) was a Swiss physician best known for his work in the fields of geology and paleontology.
Initially trained as a veterinarian, his interests later switched to medicine, of which, he received a doctorate at Lyon.
After practicing medicine in the town of Rolle, he relocated as a doctor to Sainte-Croix in 1847, where he remained up until his death in 1871.
[1] In his spare time, he conducted geological and paleontological investigations in the vicinity of Sainte-Croix, and in the process collected many fossil brachiopods, bryozoans, echinoids and sponges.
[2][1] With François-Jules Pictet de la Rive, he described the extinct gastropod genera Pseudomelania (1862), Cryptoplocus (1862) and Pseudocassis (1863),[3][4][5] as well as numerous fossil species.