Michel Gandoger

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Jean Michel Gandoger (born May 10, 1850 in Arnas , Département Rhône , † October 4, 1926 ibid) was a French botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Gand. "

Gandoger was the son of a wealthy winery owner from Beaujolais and was ordained a priest at the age of 26 (Abbé Gandoger). He devoted himself to botany and created an extensive herbarium (over 800,000 copies) that later came to the University of Lyon (Botanical Garden).

He collected mainly in the Mediterranean area (Crete, Spain, Portugal, Algeria) and was a specialist in roses. He published a lot. Many of his first descriptions turned out to be invalid in retrospect and he was notoriously known for it during his lifetime. He is even cited in the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature as an example of systematic misdescriptions and his work Flora Europaea (which contains 150,000 species names) was systematically disregarded for naming issues. A number of plants are named after him.

Fonts

  • Flore lyonnaise et des départements du sud-est, comprenant l'analyse des plantes spontanées et des plantes cultivées comme industrielles ou ornementales. Paris, Lyon 1875
  • Essai sur une nouvelle classification des Roses de l'Europe, de l'Orient et du Bassin méditerranéen. in: Bulletin de la Société agricole, scientifique et littéraire des Pyrénées-Orientales, Volume 22, 1876, pp. 376-415
  • Revue du genre Polygonum. Paris 1882
  • Flora europaea. 27 volumes, 1883–1891
  • Herborisations dans les Pyrénées. Paris, London, Berlin 1884
  • Monograph mondiale des Crucifères. 3 volumes

literature

  • JB Charbonnel, obituary in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Vol. 74, 1927, pp. 3-11

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Reveal, The Genus Erigonium Michx. (Polygonaceae) and Michel Gandoger, The Great Basin Naturalist, Volume 40, 1980, 143, JSTOR
  2. ↑ FK Meyer, Do we really have to do justice to Gandoger?, Taxon, Volume 18, 1969, pp. 415-420, pdf

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personal data
SURNAME Gandoger, Michel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gandoger, Jean Michel; Gand. (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French botanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnas (Rhône)
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1926
Place of death Arnas (Rhône)