Louis Mengaud

‘‘ malgré les mauvaises circonstances actuelles, il vient de recevoir de M. Mengaud [...] quelques fragments d’une météorite qui serait tombée le 10 juillet 1914 [...] Le bloc que possède le Musée de Toulouse pèse environ 12 kilogrammes ’’

Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 1919

Louis Mengaud
1876 Saint-Gauzens - 1957 Cascatel

conservateur, géologue, PRofesseur

A member of the Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse and a professor of geology, he served as curator of the geology and mineralogy collections at the museum from 1912 to 1925 and was a member of the museum’s supervisory committee until 1943.
The museum holds a photographic collection: some of these photographs were taken to illustrate his university lectures on geology at the Faculty of Toulouse and relate to geology, mineralogy, palaeontology and seismology, whilst others depict Spain and the Pyrenees.
His palaeontological collection is held by the Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse.