Pierre Edmond Boissier

Edmond Boissier (aged 12).

Edmond Boissier (aged 65).

Pierre Edmond Boissier , called Edmond , (born May 25, 1810 in Geneva , † September 25, 1885 in Valeyres-sous-Rances ) was a Swiss botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Boiss. "

life and work

Boissier came from a wealthy and respected Geneva family, his sister was the writer Valérie de Gasparin , his mother Caroline Boissier-Butini . He studied science and botany at the Geneva Academy. There Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle was his teacher in natural history. He undertook many botanical collecting trips to the Swiss Jura and the Alps, later in the Mediterranean (especially Spain) and the Near and Middle East to India. He first described numerous new species.

On his collecting trips he was often accompanied by his daughter Caroline Barbey-Boissier (1847-1918) and her husband William Barbey (1842-1914), who also collected themselves. The extensive herbarium he created was continued by his son-in-law William Barbey. Barbey published the Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier in Geneva from 1893 to 1899 in 7 volumes and a second series from 1901 to 1908 in 8 volumes, in which many well-known botanists published. This flora orientalis. served Benjamin Daydon Jackson as one of the basic works for the creation of the index Kewensis . In 1877 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Since 1878 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and since 1885 of the Académie des Sciences .

The plant genus Boissiera Hochst. ex Steud. from the sweet grass family (Poaceae) and the magazine Boissiera are named after him. In addition, the genera Edmondia Cogn are named close to him . from the family of the cucurbitaceae and Petroedmondia Tamamsch. from the umbelliferae family (Apiaceae).

He was married to his cousin Lucile Françoise Butini (1822), who died of typhoid fever on a trip to Spain in 1849 .

His cousin Auguste Arthur de la Rive was a well-known physicist.

Fonts

Elenchus plantarum novarum… in itinere hispanico legit , 1838
Diagnoses plantarum novarum hispanicum (together with Georges François Reuter ), 1842
Voyage botanique dans le midi de l'Espagne , 2 volumes, 1839–1845
Pugillus plantarum novarum Africae borealis Hispaniaeque australis (together with Georges François Reuter), 1852 digitized from the Biblioteca digital del Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid
Diagnoses plantarum orientalium novarum , 1842–1859
List of the plants collected on a trip through Transcaucasia and Persia (together with Friedrich Alexander Buhse ), 1860
Icones Euphorbiarum , 1866
Flora orientalis , 1867-1884

literature

Commons : Pierre Edmond Boissier - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Luc Lienhard: Boissier, Edmond. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle , obituary in negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society, 1884/85, p. 128 ff, online .
Frans Stalfen, Richard S. Cowan: Taxomic Literature, Volume 1, International Association for Plant Taxonomy, 1976, online .

Web links

Literature by and about Pierre Edmond Boissier in the catalog of the Virtual Library of Biology (vifabio)
Author entry and list of the described plant names for Pierre Edmond Boissier at the IPNI
Works by and about Pierre Edmond Boissier in the German Digital Library

References and comments

↑ Bulletin de l´Herbier Boissier, Biodiversity Library
^ Benjamin Dayton Jackson: The new 'Index of Plant-Names'. In: The Botanical Journal - British and Foreign. Vol. XXV. West, Newman & Co., London 1887, pp. 66-71.
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 44.
^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Boissier, Pierre Edmond. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 22, 2019 (Russian).
^ List of members since 1666: Letter B. Académie des sciences, accessed on September 22, 2019 (French).
↑ ^a ^b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names. Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018, online at Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin.

personal data
SURNAME	Boissier, Pierre Edmond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Boissier, Edmond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH	Geneva
DATE OF DEATH	September 25, 1885
Place of death	Valeyres-sous-Rances

[1] Bulletin de l´Herbier Boissier, Biodiversity Library

[2] Benjamin Dayton Jackson: The new 'Index of Plant-Names'. In: The Botanical Journal - British and Foreign. Vol. XXV. West, Newman & Co., London 1887, pp. 66-71.

[3] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 44.

[4] Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Boissier, Pierre Edmond. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 22, 2019 (Russian).

[5] List of members since 1666: Letter B. Académie des sciences, accessed on September 22, 2019 (French).

[Burkhardt2018-6] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names. Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018, online at Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin.