Jules Cardot

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Jules Cardot (born August 18, 1860 in Stenay , † November 22, 1934 in Charleville near Mezières) was a French bryologist and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Cardot ".

Live and act

Cardot was a leading French bryologist who first published on Moose in 1882 and worked closely with Ferdinand Renauld (1837-1910). He was particularly interested in mosses from exotic countries such as Japan, Taiwan, West Africa, Madagascar, Mexico and the Antarctic and published, among other things, monographs on mosses in the Strait of Magellan in Tierra del Fuego (1908) and Madagascar (1916).

During the First World War he worked a lot at the Natural History Museum in Paris. In 1919 his herbarium in his house in Charleville was vandalized and looted by the German occupiers, so that he decided to sell the rest to the Natural History Museum in Paris (for which the museum received financial support from England and the USA). Originally he wanted to turn away from botany entirely, but only managed to do so for a short time. From 1917 he was employed in Paris in the French economic authority for Indochina.

He named around 40 genera and 1200 species of mosses.

Honors

In 1900 he received the Montague Prize of the Academie des Sciences for his monographs on Leucobryaceae and Fontinalaceae . Besides mosses, he was also interested in rose plants . In 1923 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor . Three moss genera Cardotia Besch. Ex Cardot , Cardotiella Vitt and Neocardotia Thér were named after him . & EBBartram .

Individual evidence

  1. Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1900. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
  2. Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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