Emmanuel Drake del Castillo
Emmanuel Drake del Castillo (* 1855 in Paris , † 1904 in Saint-Cyran-du-Jambot ) was a Spanish-born French botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Drake ".
Live and act
Emmanuel's grandfather came to Cuba from England around 1800 and married an upper-class Spaniard there. Later the grandfather went to France. Emmanuel's father married a French woman who died relatively early.
Emmanuel Drake del Castillo was a student of Louis Édouard Bureau (1830-1918), professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle .
Between 1886 and 1892 he published Illustrationes Florae Insulae Maris Pacifici, a summary of his studies on the flora of French Polynesia . Then he became interested in the flora of Madagascar . In parallel to this work, he set up a herbarium (collection of dried plants / parts) which, when he died, comprised more than 500,000 samples and which he left with the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle . In 1900 he was president of the Société botanique de France .
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Emmanuel Drake del Castillo at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ed. Bureau : Notice Sur Emmanuel Drake Del Castillo. In: Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France. 51, 1904, CXVII, PDF , doi: 10.1080 / 00378941.1904.10831095 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drake del Castillo, Emmanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1904 |
| Place of death | Saint-Cyran-du-Jambot |