Alire Raffeneau-Delile

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Alire Raffeneau-Delile (born January 23, 1778 in Versailles , † July 5, 1850 in Paris ) was a French botanist and doctor . He is the brother of the French botanical illustrator Eulalie Delile (1800–1840). Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Delile ".

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Delile accompanied Napoleon on the Egypt campaign in 1798/99 and documented the campaign botanically. He described u. a. Papyrus and lotus. He copied the Rosetta Stone. He was director of the Botanical Garden in Cairo; from 1832 he was director of the botanical garden in Montpellier. He traveled and collected from 1802 to 1809 in the USA (was also the French Vice Consul in North Carolina and studied medicine in New York). From 1819 to 1850 he was professor of botany at the University of Montpellier.

On December 17, 1821 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .

Works

  • Description de l'Égypte. Histoire naturelle. Botanique , 1813–1814, 2nd edition 1824
  • Centurie de plants d'Afrique du voyage à Méroë , 1826
  • Flore de l'Arabie pétrée (in the Voyage de l'Arabie pétrée by Simon Joseph Léon Emmanuel de Laborde)

Dedication names

After Delile, the plant genera Delilia Spreng. from the sunflower family (Asteraceae), Lilaea Bonpl. from the trident family (Juncaginaceae) and Raffenaldia Godr. named from the cruciferous family (Brassicaceae).

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin, Berlin 2018. [1]
  2. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter D. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 5, 2019 (French).

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