Georges Roffavier (17 September 1775, in Lyon – 12 March 1866, in Lyon) was a French

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

. In 1806 he studied botany under Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert, later taking part in botanical excursions to Grand-Colombier (1817),

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(1826) and Chamonix (1830). In 1830 he was named interim manager of the botanical garden at Lyon.Google Books
Annales de la Société botanique de Lyon, Volumes 32-33 With Nicolas Charles Seringe and others, he was a founding member of the ''Société linnéenne de Lyon'', serving as its treasurer from 1822 to 1829. In 1864 he donated his collections,

herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...

and library to Dr. Louis Lortet. Plants with the

specific epithet In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...

of ''roffavieri'' are named in his honor, an example being ''Rosa roffavieri''.

Publications

* "Supplément a`la Flore lyonnaise publiée par J.B. Balbis en 1827 et 1828, ou description des plantes phanérogames et cryptogames découvertes depuis la la publication de cet ouvrage : suivi d'un tableau général contenant la nomenclature méthodique des espéces agames décrites dans la Flore lyonnaise, conjointement avec celles qui ont été trouvées depuis la méme époque dans les environs de Lyon". (with Giovanni Battista Balbis), 1835.WorldCat Search
(publications)

References

1775 births 1866 deaths Scientists from Lyon 19th-century French botanists {{France-botanist-stub