Joseph Arnaud Charles Gaillardot (20 September 1814, in
Lunéville
Lunéville ( ; German, obsolete: ''Lünstadt'' ) is a commune in the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle.
It is a subprefecture of the department and lies on the river Meurthe at its confluence with the Vezouze.
History
Lun ...
– August 1883, in
Bhamdoun
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) was a French physician and naturalist.
In 1837 he was named professor of natural history at the medical school in
Cairo
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, and later on in his career, spent more than twenty years as a physician at a military hospital in
Sidon
Sidon ( ; he, צִידוֹן, ''Ṣīḏōn'') known locally as Sayda or Saida ( ar, صيدا ''Ṣaydā''), is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate, of which it is the capital, on the Mediterranean coast. ...
. In 1863 he became a health specialist in
Alexandria
Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...
, then in 1875 was appointed director of the Cairo medical school.
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JSTOR Global Plants
In addition to his medical duties, he conducted botanical, zoological, geological and archaeological research in Egypt and the Middle East.
[ The snail genus '' Gaillardotia'' ( Bourguignat, 1877; family ]Neritidae
Neritidae, common name the nerites, is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized saltwater and freshwater snails which have a gill and a distinctive operculum.
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neritininae Poey, 1852. Accessed through: ...
) honors his name, as do species with epithet of ''gaillardotii'',Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. G
/ref> an example being ''Echinops gaillardotii'' (Gaillardot's globe-thistle). His Herbier de Syrie became part of the " Herbarium Haussknecht", now located at the University of Jena
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The un ...
. In 1854 he became a member of Société botanique de France
The Société botanique de France (SBF) is a French learned society founded on 23 April 1854. At its inaugural meeting it stated its purpose as "to contribute to the progress of botany and related sciences and to facilitate, by all means at its di ...
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References
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1814 births
1883 deaths
People from Lunéville
French naturalists
19th-century French botanists