French paleontologist and botanist
Maurice Andrè Frantz Breistroffer (15 July 1910, Paris – 17 February 1986, Grenoble) was a French paleontologist and botanist.
He worked as a curator at the natural history museum in Grenoble. He was recognized as a leading authority in the study of ammonites,[1] of which, he circumscribed numerous taxa; e.g. the families Oosterellidae (1940) and Leymeriellidae (1951).[2][3] As a botanist, he conducted investigations of plants native to southeastern France. He described Scilla litardierei (amethyst meadow squill) and dozens of other botanical species. Taxa with the specific epithet of breistrofferi commemorate his name.[4] In the field of entomology, he studied Coleoptera species found in the department of Drôme.[5]
