Alphonse Barthélémy Martin Boistel (24 December 1836, Paris – 21 September 1908) was a French law professor, who performed research in the fields of geology and lichenology.

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He studied law at Collège Rollin and at the University of Paris, obtaining his law degree in 1864. From 1865 to 1870 he served as a professor to the faculty of law at Grenoble,[1] then afterwards returned to Paris, where he was a professor of commercial law (1870–79) and civil law (1879–1907).[2]

As a lichenologist, he was the author of "Nouvelle flore des lichens pour la détermination facile des espèces" (2 volumes, 1896–1902).[3] In 1906 he was named president of the Société géologique de France.[4]

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