Louis Lavauden

Louis Lavauden (19 June 1881, in Grenoble – 1 September 1935, in Anjou, Isère) was a French zoologist and forester.

He was a student at the Institut agronomique et de l'Ecole forestière in Nancy, afterwards conducting zoological studies of the province Dauphiné.

From 1928 he was stationed in Madagascar, where he collected zoological specimens that included a number of lemur species.

He was, from 1929, on the editorial committee of Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie fr:Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie with its founder Paul Paris and Noël Mayaud, Henri Heim de Balsac, Jacques de Chavigny, Henri Jouard, Jacques Delamain and Paul Poty.

He was, in 1929, a founder of Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie with Noël Mayaud, Henri Heim de Balsac, Jacques de Chavigny, Paul Paris, Henri Jouard, Jacques Delamain and Paul Poty.