He worked as a curator at the natural history museum in Grenoble. He was recognized as a leading authority in the study of
ammonites,[1] of which, he circumscribed numerous taxa; e.g. the families
Oosterellidae (1940) and
Leymeriellidae (1951).[2][3] As a botanist, he conducted investigations of plants native to southeastern France. He described Scilla litardierei (amethyst meadow
squill) and dozens of other botanical species. Taxa with the specific epithet of breistrofferi commemorate his name.[4] In the field of
entomology, he studied
Coleoptera species found in the department of
Drôme.[5]
Selected works
Supplément au Catalogue des Plantes vasculaires de la Drôme in Procès-Verbaux de la Société dauphinoise d'Etudes Biologiques, (1937-1941).
Supplément au Catalogue des Plantes vasculaires des Basses-Alpes, (1946-1951).
Sur une nouvelle station de plantes relictuelles dans les Baronnies (Basses-Alpes), (1946).
Sur les zones d'ammonites dans l'albien de France et d'Angleterre, (1947).
"Cretaceous ammonites from western Venezuela", 1949 (in English; with A N C Ten Broek and R W Barker).
Rapport sur les ammonites du Barremien de la Colombie, (1951).
Supplément au Catalogue des Plantes vasculaires de l'Ardèche, (1954-1960).
Sisteron et les Alpes de Lumière, 1969 (with Gérard Guy Aymonin).
Etude de l'étage albien dans le massif de la Chartreuse : (Isère et Savoie).
Sur quelques plantes "steppo-continentales" rares et critiques du Sud-Est de la France, (1970).[1][6]