Gustave Campiche
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Gustave Campiche (August 1809 in La Sagne – 1871 in Sainte-Croix in the canton of Vaud) was a Swiss physician best known for his work in the fields of geology and paleontology.
Initially trained as a veterinarian, his interests later switched to medicine, of which, he received a doctorate at Lyon. After practicing medicine in the town of Rolle, he relocated as a doctor to Sainte-Croix in 1847, where he remained up until his death in 1871. In 1861 he became a member of the Grand Conseil in the canton of Vaud, and in 1870 received the title of préfet.[1]
In his spare time, he conducted geological and paleontological investigations in the vicinity of Sainte-Croix, and in the process collected many fossil brachiopods, bryozoans, echinoids and sponges.[2][1] With François-Jules Pictet de la Rive, he described the extinct gastropod genera Pseudomelania (1862), Cryptoplocus (1862) and Pseudocassis (1863),[3][4][5] as well as numerous fossil species. Some of his collected material was sent to the Musee Geologique in Lausanne.[6]
He made contributions to Pictet's Description des fossiles du terrain crétacé des environs de Sainte-Croix (1858–72. five parts),[7][8] and to Georges de Tribolet's Description géologique des environs de Sainte-Croix (1858).[9]
