Hubert Félix Soyer-Willemet

Hubert Félix Soyer-Willemet (born June 3, 1791 in Nancy , † January 18, 1867 ibid) was a French librarian and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Soy.-Will. "

Live and act

Hubert Félix Soyer-Willemet was the son of the miniature painter Jean-Baptiste Soyer and his wife Anne-Marie Willemet. His maternal uncle was the botanist Rémi Willemet (1735–1807), who became known for his encyclopedia Phytographie encyclopèdique . Soyer-Willemet graduated with a degree in natural sciences at the Ecole de pharmacie in Paris in 1811. He then worked in his grandfather's pharmacy in Nancy. In 1821 he became assistant librarian and in 1824 senior librarian, an office which he held for 40 years. In the same year he became general secretary of the Nancy Agricultural and Horticultural Society. Soyer-Willemet published a few small botanical monographs, including on the lamb's lettuce ( Valerianella ) and on the Algerian glue herbs ( Silene ). In 1828 his most famous work, Observations sur quelques plantes de France, appeared .

Dedication names

In 1829 the botanist Henry Monnier dedicated the genus Soyeria , which is now synonymous with the genus Crepis , to him.

literature

• Obituary in Botanische Zeitung Volume 25, 1867, p. 56
• Bulletin de geographie botanique. Le Mans: Académie internationale de geographie botanique, 1911–1919, p. 222

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 .

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Hubert Félix Soyer-Willemet at the IPNI