François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix

François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix (born May 12, 1706 in Alais , † February 19, 1767 in Montpellier ) was a French doctor, botanist, naturalist and professor at the University of Montpellier . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Sauvages ".

Live and act

Della natura e causa della rabbia ( Dissertation on nature et la cause de la Rage ), 1777

He was the son of François de Boissier (1637-1720), a military man, Capitaine de Régiment des Flandres, Seigneur de Sauvages , and Gilette de Boissier, born Blanchier (1674-1751). The couple had a daughter and four sons, one of whom was Pierre Augustin Boissier de Sauvages . He entered the Medical Faculty of the University of Montpellier on Monday November 30th, 1722. He was particularly interested in botany and attended lectures by Pierre Baux (1708–1790), an important naturalist. He received his doctorate in 1726 with a dissertation on the subject of Dissertatio medica Ludicra atque amore .

He then moved to Paris for a few years, published a treatise on the fossils in the area of Alais and also on the mineral springs in the area in 1731, and returned to Montpellier in 1734. There he received a professorship for physiology and pathology. In his function he tried to replace the mechanistic doctrines in medicine with vitalistic ideas based on the considerations of Georg Ernst Stahl . After the death of François Ayme Chicoyneau (1702-1740) he was named to the chair of botany. In Montpellier he initiated important improvements to the botanical garden, such as the construction of the first preserved greenhouse.

In 1748 he married the Jeanne-Yolande de Foucart d'Olympies (* 1718). The couple had five daughters and two sons.

He was a pen pal of the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linné , whom Sauvages de Lacroix sent botanical samples to study from the region around Montpellier. Linnaeus named the botanical genus Sauvagesia ( Ochnaceae ) in honor of his French colleague. In 1748 he was appointed a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , of which Linnaeus was a co-founder. The following year he was elected a member of the English Royal Society . On January 10, 1754 he was admitted with the academic surname Straton II. As a member ( matriculation no. 585 ) in the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina and in 1755 as a foreign member in the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences . His academic nickname was Straton II.

His main work is the Nosologia methodica , first published in 1763 , in which he presents a classification of diseases analogous to Linné's botanical work.

Fonts (selection)

Dissertatio medica. De motuum vitalium causa ubi, quae pravus mechanism usurpaverat naturae seu animae jura restituuntur. Montpellier, 1741.
Mémoire sur la maladie des bœufs du Vivarais. Rochard, Montpellier 1746.
Dissertation on nature et la cause de la Rage, dans laquelle on recherche quels en peuvent être les Préservatifs et les Remèdes. Pièce qui a remporté le Prix de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, et Belles Lettres, proposé pour l'Année 1748. Imprimerie Pierre Robert, Toulouse 1749.
Methodus foliorum, seu plantae florae monspeliensis, juxta foliorum ordinem, ad juvandam specierum cognitinem, digestae. Méthode pour connaître the plantes par les feuilles. La Haye 1751.
Dissertations sur les medicamens qui affectent certaines parties du corps humain plutôt que d'autres; et quelle seront la cause de cet effet. Bordeaux 1751.
Nosologia methodica sistens morborum classes, genera et species, juxta Sydenhami mentem et Botanicorum ordinem. Frères De Tournes, Amsterdam 1763, 5 volumes
De Venenatis Galliae Animalibus, et Venenorum in ipsis fideli Observatione compertorum Indole atque Antidotis. Monspelii, apud Viduam Joannis Martel, 1764.
Nosology méthodique, dans laquelle les maladies sont rangées par classes, suivant le système de Sydenham, & l'ordre des botanistes. Hérissant le fils, Paris 1771, 10 volumes
Pathologia methodica practica, seu de cognoscendis morbis. Editio quarta ab ipso Auctore aucta & emendata, Castellano, Naples 1776.

Taxa named after de Sauvages

Sauvagesia ( Ochnaceae )

literature

Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri , Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 516 digitized
Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 161 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Commons : François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Louis Dulieu: François Boissier de Sauvages (1706–1767). In: Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications. Année 1969, Volume, 22 Numéro 22-4, pp. 303-322.

Individual evidence

↑ Pierre-Augustin Boissier de Sauvages (1710-1795) on Bibliotheque Nationale de France
↑ Louis Dulieu: François Boissier de Sauvages (1706-1767). In: Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications. Année 1969, Volume 22, Numéro 22-4, p. 303.
^ Lukas Fäh: Authentic Homeopathy: Renewal from the Origin. Books on Demand, 2000, p. 132.
^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 221 digitized
↑ Member entry of François Boissier de Sauvages de la Croix at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 3, 2016.
^ Members of the previous academies. François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on June 8, 2015 .

↑ Axel W. Bauer : Sauvages de la Croix, François Boissier de. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1287.

personal data
SURNAME	Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix, François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Boissier de Sauvages, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French doctor, botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 12, 1706
PLACE OF BIRTH	Alais , Languedoc , France
DATE OF DEATH	February 19, 1767
Place of death	Montpellier , Languedoc , France

[1] Pierre-Augustin Boissier de Sauvages (1710-1795) on Bibliotheque Nationale de France

[2] Louis Dulieu: François Boissier de Sauvages (1706-1767). In: Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications. Année 1969, Volume 22, Numéro 22-4, p. 303.

[3] Lukas Fäh: Authentic Homeopathy: Renewal from the Origin. Books on Demand, 2000, p. 132.

[4] Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 221 digitized

[5] Member entry of François Boissier de Sauvages de la Croix at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 3, 2016.

[6] Members of the previous academies. François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on June 8, 2015 .

[7] Axel W. Bauer : Sauvages de la Croix, François Boissier de. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1287.