Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois (30 January 1715,

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– 20 March 1804,

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...

) was a French

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and

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. His son François Joseph Lestiboudois (1759-1815) and grandson

Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois (12 October 1797, Lille – 22 November 1876, Paris) was a French naturalist. He was the son of botanist François Joseph Lestiboudois (1759-1815) and the grandson of Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois (1715-1804), a ...

(1797-1876) were also botanists. Lestiboudois studied pharmacy at a local hospital in

and at the

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. After receiving his license to practice medicine in 1739, he relocated to the city of

. During the same year, Lestiboudois was appointed chief pharmacist of the

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. From 1758, he served as an apothecary at the army headquarters of

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, during which time Lestiboudois studied plants that occurred in the vicinity of

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and

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Recueil des travaux de la Société des sciences, de l'agriculture et des arts by the Société des sciences, de l'agriculture et des arts de Lille In 1770 he was appointed professor of botany by the magistrate of Lille, and from 1796 served as a professor of natural history at the ''École centrale du département du Nord à Lille''. As a professor he trained naturalist

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as a postgraduate. Along with Pierre Riquet, Lestiboudois was editor of ''Pharmacopoeia, jussu Senatus insulensis tertiary edita''. In 1774, he issued ''Carte de botanique'', a botanical chart that combined the system of

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with that of

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Publications

* Pharmacopoea, jussu senatus insulensis tertio edita P.-J. Riquet et J.-B. Lestiboudois 1772. * Abrégé élémentaire de botanique, à l'usage de l'École de botanique de Lille, 1774. * Zoologie élémentaire, ou Abrégé de l'histoire naturelle des animaux, à l'usage des jeunes commençans (with François Joseph Lestiboudois), 1802.WorldCat Search
(publications)

References

French pharmacists 1715 births 1804 deaths University of Douai alumni People from Douai 18th-century French botanists {{France-scientist-stub