Ernest Saint-Charles Cosson

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Ernest Cosson

Ernest Saint-Charles Cosson (born July 22, 1819 in Paris , † December 31, 1889 there ) was a French botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Coss. "

Life

Cosson was first to become a businessman like his father, but then studied medicine with a degree in surgery in 1847 and also dealt with botany, where he was a student of Adrien de Jussieu .

With Jacques Nicolas Ernest Germain de Saint-Pierre (1815–1882) he wrote an atlas of the flora around Paris. Cosson collected especially in Algeria , where he took ten trips from 1852 to 1861, which he financed himself, and in Tunisia . Jean-Louis Kralik was the curator of his important herbarium, which went to the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle .

From 1873 he was a member of the Académie des sciences . In 1863 and 1880 he was president of the Société botanique de France .

Honors

The genus Cossonia Durieu from the cruciferous family (Brassicaceae) was named after Cosson . The genus Diserneston Jaub. & Spach from the umbelliferae family (Apiaceae) honors Cosson and Jacques Nicolas Ernest Germain de Saint Pierre , who both have the first name Ernest. Both together had published several times Floren for the Paris area.

Fonts

  • with Jacques Nicolas Ernest Germain de Saint-Pierre: Atlas de la flore des environs de Paris ou illustrations de toutes les espèces des genres difficiles et de la plupart des plantes litigieuses de cette région, Paris: Fortin, Masson 1845
  • with Michel Charles Durieu de Maisonneuve: Introduction à la Flore d'Algérie, 1854
  • Le règne végétal en Algérie: considérations générales sur l'Algérie, sur sa végétation spontanée et ses cultures, Paris, impr. de A. Quantin, 1879
  • Illustrationes Florae atlanticae: seu Icones plantarum novarum, rariorum vel minus cognitarum, in Algeria, necnon in regno Tunetano et imperio Maroccano nascentium, 2 volumes, Paris, 1882, 1897

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
  2. ↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1909. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7

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personal data
SURNAME Cosson, Ernest Saint-Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coss. (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French botanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1889
Place of death Paris