Pierre Allorge

French botanist (1891-1944).

Pierre Allorge (12 April 1891 – 21 January 1944) was a French botanist born in Paris. His wife, Valentine Allorge (1888–1977) was a noted bryologist. He studied natural sciences in Paris, obtaining his doctorate with a thesis titled Les Associations végétales du Vexin français. In 1933 he became chair of cryptogamy at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle. In 1937 he was appointed president of the Société botanique de France. Between 1928 and 1938 he issued the exsiccata Bryotheca Iberica. Muscinées de l'Espagne et du Portugal. Together with his wife Valentine Allorge he published two further bryoph