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François Marie Louis Corbière (10 May 1850, Champsecret – 3 January 1941, Cherbourg) was a French botanist and mycologist.

He worked as a school teacher in the town of Sées, followed by similar duties in Argentan (1869). In 1882 he became a professor of sciences at the lycée in Cherbourg. Here he worked as a conservator at the city's natural history museum and as scientific director of the Parc Emmanuel-Liais.

In 1907 he became a member of the Société botanique de France, and for a period of time, served as president of the Société d'horticulture de Cherbourg. He was also a member of the Société des sciences naturelles de Cherbourg and the Société linnéenne de Normandie.

Principal works

• Muscinées du département de la Manche, 1889 – Mosses native to the department of Manche
• Nouvelle flore de Normandie contenant la description des plantes qui croissent spontanément ou sont cultivées en grand dans les départements de La Seine-Inférieure, L'Eure, le Calvados, L'Orne & La Manche, 1893 – New flora of Normandy containing descriptions of native plants and those cultivated on a large-scale in the departments of Seine-Inférieure, Eure, Calvados, Orne and Manche
• Muscinées du Département du Var, 1921 – Mosses native to the department of Var
• Champignons de la Manche, 1929 – Mushrooms native to Manche.

References

1. https://cths.fr/an/savant.php?id=105858
2. ^ Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
3. Data.bnf.fr biographical data
4. OCLC Classify publications
5. International Plant Names Index.  Corb.

External links

• Works by or about Louis Corbière at the Internet Archive

• 1850 births
• 1941 deaths
• People from Champsecret
• 19th-century French botanists
• French mycologists
• French bryologists
• 20th-century French botanists