Louis Charles Émile Lortet

Louis Charles Émile Lortet (22 August 1836 – 26 December 1909) was a French physician, botanist, zoologist and Egyptologist who was a native of Oullins.

He served as premier doyen at the Faculty of Medicine of Lyon from 1877 until 1906.

Lortet is remembered for his scientific and zoological expeditions to the Middle East (Syria, Lebanon and Egypt).

He performed studies of mummified animals from the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt, and in 1880 took part in an excavation of a Phoenician necropolis.

[2] His Grandmother Clémence Lortet (17 September 1772 – 15 April 1835) was a French botanist and naturalist.