Denis Dodart

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Denis Dodart.

Denis Dodart (* 1634 in Paris ; † November 5, 1707 ibid) was a French doctor and botanist .

Live and act

Denis Dodart is the son of his father Denis Dodart and his wife Marie Dubois. He studied medicine, graduated on April 1, 1658 and received his doctorate on October 13, 1660 as a doctor of medicine. In 1666 he became a professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Paris . He was the doctor of Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé , the Duchess of Longueville and of Anna Maria Martinozzi, the widow of the Prince of Conti . Dodart eventually became one of King Louis XIV's advisory doctors . In 1673 he became a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences .

Heliotropium americanum from Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes drawn by Nicolas Robert

In 1676 the font Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes appeared , for which Dodard acted as editor. He coordinated the contributions of Samuel Cottereau du Clos (1598–1685), Pierre Borel , Claude Perrault , Edmé Mariotte , Claude Bourdelin II († 1711), Nicolas Marchant († 1678) and wrote for them himself. The work is illustrated with 39 plant panels by Nicolas Robert .

Dodart died on November 5, 1707 and was buried in the cemetery of Saint Germain l'Auxerrois church in Paris. His son is Claude-Jean-Baptiste Dodart (1664-1730).

Honor taxon

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort named the genus Dodartia of the plant family of the juggler flower family (Phrymaceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name

Works

  • Ergo in hydrope mittendus sanguis . Paris 1660.
  • De febridus balneum . Paris 1660.
  • Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes . Paris 1676.
  • Non ergo carnes quovis alio cibo salubriores . Paris 1677.
  • De cancro hydraugyro . Paris 1682.
  • Médecine des pauvres . Paris 1692.
  • Ergo febribus acutis e carnibus juscula . Paris 1700.
  • An omnis morbus a coagulatione . Paris 1703.
  • Medicina statica Gallica . Paris 1725.

Articles in Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences (selection)

  • Memories on the causes de la Voix de l'homme, et de ses différens tons . In: Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences . 1700, pp. 244-274 ( digitized version ).
  • Notes sur le Mémoire precedent . In: Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences . 1700, pp. 254-293.
  • Supplement au mémoire sur la voix et les tons. Première partie . 1706, p. 136.
  • De la différence des Tons de la Parole et de la Voix du chant, par rapport au récitatif, et par occasion de les Expressions de la Musique antique et de la Musique moderne . 1706, p. 380.
  • Supplement au mémoire sur la voix et les tons. Seconde partie . 1707, pp. 66-81.

literature

Jean-Jacques Peumery: Les Dodart - père et fils: médecins de roi . In: Histoire des sciences médicales . Volume XXXIV, No. 1, 2000, pp. 39-46

proof

  • Hoefer: Nouvelle biographie générale: depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources à consulter . 46 volumes, Paris 1852–1866.
  • Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle: Éloge de M. Dodart . 170. ( online ).
  • Wilfrid Blunt : The Art of Botanical Illustration: An Illustrated History. Dover Publications . 1994, p. 111. ISBN 0-486-27265-6
  • Kurt Sprengel : history of botany . Oxford 1818.
  • Joachim Gessinger: Eye & Ear: Studies to study language in humans . 1994. ISBN 3-11-013633-3 .
  • Umberto Quattrocchi: CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology . CRC Press Inc., 2000, ISBN 0-8493-2676-1 , p. 827.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Pitton de Tournefort : Institutiones rei herbariae . Volume 3, plate 478
  2. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica Leiden 1737, p. 92
  3. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 288

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personal data
SURNAME Dodart, Denis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1634
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1707
Place of death Paris