Ernest Germain de Saint-Pierre

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Jacques Nicolas Ernest Germain de Saint-Pierre , actually Ernest Germain , (born December 7, 1814 in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier , † June 27, 1882 in Hyères ) was a French doctor and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Germ. "

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As a botanist he was a student of Achille Richard , the botany professor at the Medical Faculty in Paris. With Ernest Cosson he published a flora around Paris.

In 1854 he was one of the fifteen founding members of the Société botanique de France and its president. (1870/71). He was a member of the Société philomathique and the Société de biologie.

His name was originally Germain, but later named after his place of residence in Hyères, the neo-Gothic country house and castle Saint-Pierre-des-Horts, or Germain de Saint-Pierre, where he was born.

Honors

The plant genus Diserneston Jaub is named after "Ernest Germain" and "Ernest Cosson" ("les deux Ernest") . & Spach from the umbelliferae family (Apiaceae). The genus Germainia Balansa & Poitr. in contrast, from the sweet grass family (Poaceae) is not named after him, but after Rodolphe Germain, a French veterinarian (1827-1917).

Fonts

  • with Ernest Cosson: 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 Ernest Cosson: Flore descriptive et analytique des environs de Paris, 2 volumes, Paris: Fortin, Masson 1845, 2nd edition 1861
  • Guide du botaniste ou Conseil pratique sur l'étude de la botanique, Paris: Masson 1852
  • Nouveau Dictionnaire de botanique comprenant la description des familles naturelles, les propriétés médicales et les usages économiques des plants, la morphologie et la biologie des végétaux, 1870

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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]
personal data
SURNAME Germain de Saint-Pierre, Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Germain de Saint-Pierre, Jacques Nicolas Ernest (full name); Germain, Ernest (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1882
Place of death Hyeres