Pierre Augustin Dangeard

Beginning in 1883, he worked as a préparateur to the faculty at Caen, earning his doctorate in 1886.

Following graduation, he served as chief of travaux de botanique.

In 1891 he was appointed associate professor of botany at the University of Poitiers, later relocating to Paris as a lecturer at the faculty of sciences.

He was the member of several learned societies, such as the Académie des sciences (1917), the Société botanique de France (president 1914–18) and the Société mycologique de France.

[1] He was honoured in 1899, when botanists Pier Andrea Saccardo and Paul Sydow published Dangeardiella, which is a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes.