Charles Fortuné Willermoz

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Charles Fortuné Willermoz

Charles Fortuné Willermoz (born March 6, 1804 in Coligny , † October 6, 1879 in Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or ) was a French pomologist .

Life

Poire Willermoz
Willermoz peach

Charles Fortuné Willermoz was born on March 6, 1804 in Coligny, the son of a craftsman. His godfather enabled him to attend the school in his hometown, which was directed by Abbé Cabucheat. At the age of 15 he was teaching in a boarding school in Montluel . Five years later he moved to a boarding school in Lyon. Eventually he started to work as a merchant in a company that dealt in groceries. After getting married at the age of 28, he opened his own trading business.

Willermoz was increasingly concerned with fruit growing. Eventually he gave up his business and moved to Oullins near Lyon in order to devote himself entirely to fruit growing.

In 1843 he and other pomologists founded the Société d'horticulture practique du Rhône in Lyon , of which he was general secretary until 1860. On his initiative, the Congrès pomologique was founded in 1856 , the first president of which was Charles Balten , while Willermoz held the office of secretary until 1865. In 1873 he was appointed vice president of the company. Together with the botany professor Nicola Charles Seringe and M. Henon, he published the monthly magazine Flore et Pomone lyonnaises, ou Dessins et description des fleurs et des fruits. the Société d'horticulture du Rhône, which was merged in 1848 with the Bulletin de la Société d'horticulture du Rhône .

In 1848 he was appointed professor of fruit growing at the School of Horticulture for the Rhône department. In this role he taught numerous students in cultivar science and tree pruning. He also trained gardeners at the Ecully School, but also taught amateurs interested in horticulture. For a few years he also taught horticulture and fruit tree growing at the School of Villefranche. Finally, on the recommendation of Hénon, the former director of the Horticultural School in Lyon, he was called to Geneva to organize horticultural conferences there.

In 1849 he was appointed director of the old departmental tree nursery of the Rhône department.

He is said to have had an outstanding memory, so that he was soon considered one of the best connoisseurs of varieties in France. Via the Société d'horticulture pratique du Rhône , he published the eight-volume work Pomologie de la France , which became a standard work in French pomology due to the meticulous descriptions of varieties prepared by Willermoz . He has also published numerous articles on cultivar science in English, German and Belgian journals.

After the departmental government founded an agricultural research institute on the site in Ecully, he moved with his wife and daughter to an estate in Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or . Here he continued to work intensively on his pomological studies.

Charles Fortuné Willermoz died on October 6, 1879 at the age of 76 on his estate in Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or .

Honors

Alexandre Bivort named a pear he had grown in honor of Charles Willermoz as Poire Willermoz . The pear was spread in Germany under the name Willermoz Butterbirne . The pomologist P. Champ Gaillard from Brignais named a peach variety that he had imported from America in honor of Willermoz Pêche Willermoz , which was distributed in Germany under the name Willermoz peach .

Works

  • Essai sur la taille des arbres fruitiers: greffe lagrange. J. Nigon, Lyon 1853
  • Observations sur le genre poirier: principalement sur les espèces jardinières qui ont été présentées à l'exposition de la société d'horticulture pratique du Rhône en septembre 1848 , 1849
  • Instructions familières sur lh̓orticulture. J. Nigon, Lyon 1855
  • Conférences horticoles. J. Nigon, Lyon 1871
  • Pomologie de la France ou histoire et description de tous les fruits cultivés en France et admis par le Congrès pomologique institué par la Société impériale d'horticulture pratique du Rhône.
    • Tome I, Poires, J. Nigon, Lyon 1863
    • Tome II, Poires, J. Nigon, Lyon 1864
    • Tome III, Poires, J. Nigon, Lyon 1865
    • Tome IV, Poires, J. Nigon, Lyon 1867
    • Tome V, French fries, J. Nigon, Lyon 1868
    • Tome VI, Pêches, abricots, J. Nigon, Lyon 1869
    • Tome VII, Prunes, cerises, J. Nigon, Lyon 1871
    • Tome VIII, Raisins, framboises, groseillies, cassis, coings, nèfles, J. Nigon, Lyon 1873

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ M. Luizet: Nécrologie - M. Charles-Fortuné Willermoz. In: Revue Horticule. Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique, Paris 1880, p. 11f
  2. ↑ E. Lucas: Charles Fortuné Willermoz. Pomological monthly books, 1880, pp. 289f
  3. ↑ E. Lucas: Charles Fortuné Willermoz. Pomological monthly books, 1880, pp. 289f
  4. ^ Literary magazine, Berlin 1848, Sp. 591
  5. ^ M. Luizet: Nécrologie - M. Charles-Fortuné Willermoz. In: Revue Horticule. Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique, Paris 1880, p. 11f
  6. ^ M. Luizet: Nécrologie - M. Charles-Fortuné Willermoz. In: Revue Horticule. Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique, Paris 1880, p. 11f
  7. ^ A. Bivort: Poire Willermoz. In: Album de Pomologie. Volume IV. P. 9
  8. ^ F. Jahn: No. 402. Willermoz's Butter Pear. In: Illustrirtes Handbuch der Obstkunde. Volume 5: pears. Dorn'sche Buchhandlung, Ravensburg 1866, p. 303f
  9. ↑ Eduard Lucas: The Willermoz peach. In: Pomological monthly books. Published by Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1876, p. 67f
personal data
SURNAME Willermoz, Charles Fortuné
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willermoz, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pomologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Coligny
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1879
Place of death Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or