Jean-Baptiste Mougeot

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Jean Baptiste Mougeot

Jean-Baptiste Mougeot (born September 25, 1776 in Bruyères , Lorraine , † December 5, 1858 ibid) was a French doctor, paleobotanist and botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Moug. "

life and work

Mougeot was in the medical service of the French army in Germany from 1798 to 1802 and then a doctor in his home town of Bruyères. From 1833 until his death he was also in the Conseil Général des Départements Vosges .

He collected and dealt with mosses, lichens and algae. His son Antoine Mougeot published with Wilhelm Philipp Schimper on Triassic plant fossils from the Voltzien sandstone of the Vosges. In their book, which is dedicated to Jean-Baptiste Mougeot, they name him in the foreword as the first to draw attention to the plant fossils in the Voltitzia sandstone. Jean-Baptiste Mougeot first mentioned them in 1825 in a letter to Alexandre Brongniart in Paris (the father of the famous paleobotanist Adolphe Brongniart ). The book contained excellent illustrations. The original fossils burned in the fire of the geological institute in Strasbourg in 1967.

He worked with the Strasbourg botany professor Christian Gottfried Nestler .

He conducted extensive correspondence (with 250 scientists, around 10,000 letters in the Natural History Museum in Paris) and left travel notebooks.

His herbarium (acquired from Casimir Roumeguère ) is in Montpellier (Herbarium MPU) and partly in the Natural History Museum Paris (PC). From 1828 he published with Wilhelm Philipp Schimper and Christian Gottfried Nestler 14 episodes of cryptogam exsiccates (around 1400 copies), which are in various museums (collected in the Vosges region from 1810 to 1854). The series was continued by Roumeguére and the son of Mougeot until 1892 (Stirpes cryptogamae vogeso-rhenanae, a total of 16 episodes).

Honors

The algae genus Mougeotia was named in his honor by Carl Adolph Agardh in 1824 . The algae genera Mougeotiella Yamagishi and Mougeotiopsis Palla were also named after Mougeot. The names of the species of the Sorbus mougeotii group (including the Vosges whitebeam ) and the name of the fossil fern Anomopteris mougeotii go back to him.

He was a Knight of the Legion of Honor . In 1842 he became a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • J.-B. Mougeot: Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 5, 1858, 472–478 (letter to Nestler)
  • J.-B. Mougeot: Considérations générales sur la végétation spontanée du département des Vosges, 1845

literature

  • Frans Stafleu, Richard Cowan, Taxonomic Literature, Volume 3, Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, Den Haag 1981, 2nd edition, pp. 606f
  • Y. Laissus, 103rd Congr. Soc. Sav. Nancy, 5, 1978, 233-240, to the estate
  • A. Mougeot, Wilhelm Philipp Schimper: Monograph of the Plantes fossiles du Grès Bigarré de la chaine des Vosges. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann 1844, Google Books Gallica , (83 pages, 40 plates). (written by his son A. Mougeot, who was also a doctor and geologist, and dedicated to his father).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Léa Grauvogel-Stamm , La flore du Grès a Voltzia (Buntsandstein superieure) des Vosges du Nord (France), Mémoires 50, Sciences Géologiques, University of Strasbourg 1978
  2. ↑ For example, Musées de Laval, Botanical Collection
  3. ↑ 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 .
  4. ^ Member entry of Jean Baptist Mougeot at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 17, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Mougeot, Jean-Baptiste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruyères
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1858
Place of death Bruyères