Edmond Davall (
Orbe
Orbe (; la, Urba; older german: Orbach, ; frp, Orba) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It was the seat of the former district of Orbe and is now part of the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.
History
Orbe is first mentioned about ...
, 1793 -
Lausanne
, neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR-74), ...
, 1860) was a
Swiss
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botanist and politician.
He was son of the English-Swiss botanist
Edmund Davall
Edmund Davall (24 November 1762 in London – 26 September 1798 in Orbe) was a Switzerland, Swiss-English botanist.London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812. Baptism: 3 Dec 1762 - St Lawrence Jewry, London, Engl ...
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Sources
* Cédric ROSSIER, mémoire de licence de l'Université de Lausanne, septembre 2003.
* "Edmond Davall : approche biographique de l’homme et du forestier", Cédric ROSSIER, in Revue historique vaudoise, 2005.
* J. Barbey, «Les forestiers D.», in Journal forestier suisse, 1953, 391–395.
1793 births
1860 deaths
People from Orbe
19th-century Swiss botanists
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