Suzanne Jovet-Ast
Suzanne Jovet-Ast (born February 8, 1914 in Paris , † February 22, 2006 in Biarritz , Département Pyrénées-Atlantiques ) was a French bryologist and botanist . Her main interest was in cryptogams . Their official botanical author abbreviations are "Ast" and "Juvet-Ast" .
Life
Suzanne Ast was the daughter of an industrialist. In 1932 she obtained the Baccalauréat at the Lycée Voltaire in Paris. After receiving his license in the natural sciences in 1934, Ast became a freelancer at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in 1935 . From 1937 to 1938 she had a doctoral scholarship and from 1939 to 1940 a travel grant. In 1939 she married the ecologist and botanist Paul Albert Jovet (1896–1991). This marriage remained childless. From 1940 to 1941 Jovet-Ast worked as a teacher. In 1941 she became an employee in the laboratory for cryptogam ecology at the École pratique des hautes études . In 1943 she received her doctorate in natural sciences . In 1945 she became an assistant at the Phanerogame Department in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. In 1957 she became deputy director of the department for cryptogames and in 1975 she succeeded Roger Heim as department head. During her tenure, she was a professor at the Chair of Cryptogams associated with the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). In 1982 she retired.
Apart from a few writings on phanerogams ( annonaceae from Indochina as well as African or American duckweed plants ), Jovet-Ast's complete works include the mosses . She studied these cryptogams in terms of taxonomy , morphology, and ecology . She wrote various monographs, including on the genus of the star liverwort ( Riccia ) and formed a research team that devoted itself to the species in the Mediterranean area . Jovet-Ast published over 200 works, including Les Groupements de Muscinées epiphytes aux Antilles françaises (1949), Les Hépatiques de Tunisie: Enumération, notes écologiques et biogéographiques (1971, in collaboration with Hélène Bischler ), Les Hépatiques de Sardaigne, énumération, notes écologiques et biogéographiques (1971–1972, in collaboration with Hélène Bischler), Histoire de la chaire de Cryptogamie (1979) and Les Riccia de la région méditerranéenne (1986). Jovest-Ast also contributed to the maintenance and expansion of the bryophyte herbarium of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.
Dedication names
In 1941, Paul Jovet named the Malagasy genus Astiella from the red family after his wife. In 2014 Tanawat Chaowasku and Paul JA Keßler named the species Miliusa astiana from the Annonaceae family, which occurs in Vietnam, in honor of Suzanne Jovet-Ast.
literature
- Philippe Jaussaud , Édouard-Raoul Brygoo : Du Jardin au Muséum en 516 biographies . Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris, Open editions books, 2019, ISBN 978-2-85653-853-1 (ebook version), pp. 302–303
Web links
- Literature by and about Suzanne Jovet-Ast in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Suzanne Jovet-Ast at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tanawat Chaowasku, Paul JA Keßler: Miliusa cambodgensis sp. nov. (Annonaceae) from Cambodia and M.astiana, M. ninhbinhensis spp. nov. from Vietnam. In: Nordic Journal of Botany, 32 (3), 2014, pp. 298-307. doi : 10.1111 / j.1756-1051.2013.00219.x
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jovet-Ast, Suzanne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ast, Suzanne (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French bryologist and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 2006 |
| Place of death | Biarritz , Pyrénées-Atlantiques department |