Casimir Pyramus de Candolle

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Anne Casimir Pyrame de Candolle

Anne Casimir Pyrame de Candolle (born February 20, 1836 in Geneva , † October 3, 1918 in Chêne-Bougeries ) was a Swiss botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " C.DC. ». He was the son of Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle and the grandson of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle . His son Richard Émile Augustin de Candolle was also a botanist; whose author abbreviation is « Aug.DC. ».

Live and act

From 1853 to 1857 he studied at the University of Paris . He then spent some time in England, where he met Miles Joseph Berkeley . After a trip to Algeria in 1859 , he continued to study in Berlin from 1860.

He edited for the work of his father Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis in volume 16 the Piperaceae , the Juglandaceae and the Myricaceae from 1864 to 1869. In 1878 he wrote for Martius in volume 11 of the Flora Brasiliensis the part on Meliaceae .

Candolle has described more than 4500 plant species.

Publications

  • with his father as editor: Monographiæ Phanerogamarum Prodromi Nunc Continuatio, Nunc Revisio, Auctoribus A. Et C. de Candolle Aliisque Botanicis Ultra Memoratis… Cum Tabulis, Etc. (9 volumes). 1878-1896.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Roderick Weir Home: Regard Fully yours. Selected correspondence of Ferdinand Von Mueller . Volume III, 1876-1896. Peter Lang, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-3-906757-10-0 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

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