George Samuel Perrottet

His grave in Pondicherry (India)

Perrottetia sandwicensis

George Samuel Perrottet (* 1793 in Nant , today the municipality of Bas-Vully , Canton of Friborg ; † January 3, 1870 in Pondicherry in India ) was a Swiss botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Perr. "

Live and act

He worked as a gardener in the botanical garden in Paris and from 1819 to 1821 took part as a naturalist in an expedition led by Pierre Henri Philibert . On this trip he collected plants from Réunion , Java and the Philippines in order to cultivate them later in French Guiana .

From 1824 to 1829 he undertook expeditions in West Africa in what is now the Gambia and Senegal, including the island of Gorée and the Cape Verde Islands .

Together with Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin (1796–1842) and Achille Richard (1794–1852), he published a work on Flora Senegambias Florae Senegambiae Tentamen (1830–1833), which was illustrated by Joseph Decaisne (1807–1882).

From 1832 Perrottet worked again in Paris , at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle , from 1834 to 1839 then at the botanical garden of Pondicherry. In 1839 he returned to France, where he worked in sericulture. In 1843, however, he went back to Pondicherry, where he worked as a botanist until his death in 1870.

Honors

The plant genus Perrottetia Kunth from the Dipentodontaceae family is named after him.

Web links

Author entry and list of the plant names described for George Samuel Perrottet at the IPNI
Short biography at expedition.seaaroundus.org

Individual evidence

^ Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 6: Tavetsch Val - Zybachsplatte, supplement - last additions - appendix . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1910, p. 435, keyword Vully / Vully (Mont) .

↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Perrottet, George Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	1793
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nant , today the municipality of Bas-Vully , Canton of Friborg
DATE OF DEATH	January 3, 1870
Place of death	Pondicherry

[gls-1] Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de geographie (editor): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 6: Tavetsch Val - Zybachsplatte, supplement - last additions - appendix . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1910, p. 435, keyword Vully / Vully (Mont) .

[Burkhardt_2018-2] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .