Nicolas Marchant

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Nicolas Marchant († 1678 in Paris ) was a French pharmacist and botanist .

Live and act

Nicolas Marchant studied medicine at the University of Padua and received his degree there. He was director of the gardens of Duke Jean-Baptiste Gaston de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans in Blois and was one of the first members of the Académie des Sciences, founded in 1666 .

His son Jean Marchant († November 11, 1738), also a botanist, became a member of the academy on June 18, 1678 and worked at the Jardin du Roi .

Honor taxon

Jean Marchant named the genus Marchantia of the Marchantiaceae plant family in his father's honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name.

Works

  • Description des Plantes données par l'Académie . Paris, 1676

literature

  • Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer: Nouvelle biographie générale: depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources à consulter . Paris: Firmin Didot, 1852–1866. - 46 volumes
  • David J. Sturdy: Science and Social Status: The Members of the Academie des Sciences, 1666-1750 . 1995. ISBN 0-85115-395-X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of members of the Académie des sciences ( Memento of May 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Jean Marchant: Nouvelles découverte des Fleurs et des Graines d'une Plante rangée par les Botanistes sous le genre du Lichen . In: Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences avec les mémoires de mathématique et de physique pour la même année tirés des registres de cette académie . Volume 35, Paris, 1713, pp. 229–234 ( Online ( Memento of December 25, 2004 in the Internet Archive )) (PDF)
  3. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 93
  4. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 506
personal data
SURNAME Marchant, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pharmacist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 1678
Place of death Paris