Antoine Düss (August 14, 1840 – May 5, 1924) was a Swiss botanist. Père Düss was born in Hasle, Switzerland, graduated from the Gymnasium in Luzern and entered the Congregation du Saint-Esprit et du Saint-Coeur de Marie in

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. Titled variably as Abbé, Pére (Father) or Reverend, he held teaching positions at the Collége de

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and at the College de

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on Guadeloupe. He collected botanical specimens mainly on Guadeloupe and its dependencies and

, but made also collecting trips to Antigua,

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, Dominica, and Saint Lucia. He is honoured in the naming of '' Dussiella'', which is a

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within the

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family, and ''

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s in the family Fabaceae.

Sources

* Urban, Ignaz. ''Notae biographicae,'' Symb. Antill. 3:14,1900.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Duss, Antoine Botanists with author abbreviations Bryologists Pteridologists Swiss mycologists 1840 births 1924 deaths 19th-century Swiss botanists Botanists active in the Caribbean 20th-century Swiss botanists