Alphonse Barthélémy Martin Boistel (24 December 1836,

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– 21 September 1908) was a French law professor, who performed research in the fields of

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and lichenology. He studied law at Collège Rollin and at the

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, obtaining his law degree in 1864. From 1865 to 1870 he served as a professor to the faculty of law at Grenoble, then afterwards returned to Paris, where he was a professor of commercial law (1870–79) and civil law (1879–1907). As a lichenologist, he was the author of "''Nouvelle flore des lichens pour la détermination facile des espèces''" (2 volumes, 1896–1902). In 1906 he was named president of the Société géologique de France.Alphonse-Barthélemy-Martin Boistel (1836-1908)
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