Auguste Courtiller

Auguste Courtiller (1795-1875) was a French paleontologist and viticulturist. Muscat de Saumur was first cultivated in 1842 by Auguste Courtiller, who created it by selecting seedlings from a Pinot Noir Précoce vine with open pollination. Courtiller worked in the Jardin des Plantes of the city of Saumur.
As a paleontologist, he described the ammonites species "Ammonites cephalotus" (syn. of "Neoptychites telinga") in 1860 and "Kamerunoceras salmuriensis" in 1867. He also named the genus "Cupulina" in 1861.