Pierre-Joseph Garidel

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Ranunculus arvensis in Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix (1715).

Pierre-Joseph Garidel (born August 1, 1658 in Manosque , † June 6, 1737 in Aix-en-Provence ) was a French doctor and botanist .

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Pierre-Joseph Garidel is the son of the lawyer Pierre Garidel and his wife Louise von Barthelemy. He studied medicine at the University of Aix-en-Provence under Honoré Bicaise and Antoine Mérindol (1570–1624).

Together with Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and Charles Plumier , he researched the flora of the Dauphiné and Savoy regions in 1678 .

On June 23, 1682 he received his doctorate in medicine in Aix-en-Provence, where he later also worked as a professor of anatomy. At the suggestion of Tournefort he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences on March 4, 1699 .

His work Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix-en-Provence , published in 1715, is one of the first floras in France. He was the first to systematically deal with the flora of Provence . He described in it u. a. in detail the grape , the vine and winemaking in Provence.

Joseph Lieutaud (1703–1780) was his nephew.

Dedication names

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort named the genus Garidella of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) in his honor .

Works

Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix-en-Provence et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence . Aix, 1715

literature

Félix Chavernac: Le botaniste Garidel et son neveu Lieutaud, médecin de Louis XVI . Marseille, 1877.

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  • 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
  • Jennifer Speake Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia . 2003, p. 1168. ISBN 1579584241

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Pitton de Tournefort : Institutiones rei herbariae . Volume 1, p. 655 and Volume 3, plate 430
  2. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 92
  3. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 195

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personal data
SURNAME Garidel, Pierre-Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1658
PLACE OF BIRTH Manosque
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1737
Place of death Aix-en-Provence