Guy-Crescent Fagon
Guy-Crescent Fagon (born May 11, 1638 in Paris , † March 11, 1718 there ) was a French doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Fagon ".
Life
Guy-Crescent Fagon was the son of Henri Fagon and Louise de La Brosse, a niece of Guy de La Brosse . Orphaned at an early age, he studied medicine and received his doctorate on December 9, 1664.
He worked on the first large catalog of the Jardin du roi (Royal Garden), comprising about 4,000 plants, which was published in Paris in 1665 by Denis Joncquet († 1671) under the title Hortus Regius . In the year the catalog was published, Fagon took over the chairs of botany (until 1709) and chemistry (until 1712) at the Jardin du roi.
His son was Louis Fagon (1680-1744).
Fagon was the doctor of the heir to the throne Louis . In 1693, as the successor to Antoine d'Aquin, he was both personal physician to King Louis XIV and director of the Royal Gardens. During his tenure as director of the garden, which lasted until 1718, he expanded the garden by building several greenhouses , a labyrinth and a small amphitheater . He was largely responsible for the expeditions of Charles Plumier to the West Indies (1689, 1693 and 1695), Louis Feuillée to Argentina , Chile and Peru (1707–1711) and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort to Greece , Asia Minor and Armenia (1700–1702) .
On February 14, 1699 he was made an honorary member of the French Academy of Sciences .
In 1701 he survived a lithotomy that was seldom performed at the time and carried out by George Mareschal (1658–1736).
Dedication names
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort named the genus Fagonia of the zygophyllaceae plant family in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name. Charles Plumier named a genus Guidonia after him , but Linnaeus placed it in the plant genus Samyda .
Literary reception
Based on Saint-Simon's memoirs from 1709, Fagon, in his role as narrator and active person, is one of the main characters in Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's novella The Suffering of a Boy .
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literature
- Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle: Éloge de M. Fagon . ( PDF ; 470 kB).
- Roy Mottram: Charles Plumier, the King's Botanist - his life and work. With a facsimile of the original cactus plates and the text from Botanicum Americum (1689-1897) . In: Bradleya . Volume 20, 2002, pp. 79-120.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of membres, correspondants et associés étrangers de l'Académie des sciences depuis sa création en 1666 ( PDF ( Memento of the original of November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original - and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
- ↑ Georges Androutsos: Guy Crescent Fagon (1638-1718), premier médecin de Louis XIV, taillé par Georges Mareschal (1658-1736) In: Progrès en Urologie . Volume 16, 2006, pp. 94–97 ( PDF )
- ^ Joseph Pitton de Tournefort: Institutiones rei herbariae . Paris 1700, Volume 1, p. 265.
- ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 92.
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 186.
- ^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Paris 1703, p. 4 and plate 24
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 520.
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Guy-Crescent Fagon at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fagon, Guy-Crescent |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French doctor and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1638 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1718 |
| Place of death | Paris |