Adolphe-Louis-Émile Bitard (24 February 1826 – early 1888) was a 19th-century French journalist and scientific educator.
From age 17, he enlisted in the campaigns of Crimea and Italy. After the was voted, Bitard participated to several Parisian dailies, and then, from 1871, to science magazines such as La Revue de France, Le Musée universel and which he established some weeks before he died. He created two other magazines, in 1878, and in 1881, then in 1887. In addition to popular science books, he left a biographical dictionary and several practical encyclopedias.
Main publications 1875: 1878: ,Text online 1878: 1878: 1878: 1878: . Reissue: , 1880. 1878: , Text online 1880: , Text online 1880: 1880: 1881: 1884: 1886: 1891: .
Sources Catherine Benedic, "Le Monde des vulgarisateurs", La science pour tous, sur la vulgarisation scientifique en France de 1850 à 1914, Paris, Bibliothèque du conservatoire national des arts et métiers, 1990, (p. 41).
External links Adolphe Bitard on Data.bnf.fr