Jean-Baptiste Mougeot
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Jean-Baptiste Mougeot (25 September 1776, in Bruyères – 5 December 1858) was a French physician and botanist. From 1798 to 1802, he was stationed in Germany as an army health officer, afterwards returning to his hometown of Bruyères, where he settled as a physician. From 1833 until his death in 1858, he was a member of the ''conseil général'' for the département of Vosges.BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
The algae genera ''Mougeotia'' and '' Mougeotiopsis'' (family
Zygnemataceae The Zygnemataceae are a family of filamentous or unicellular, uniseriate (unbranched) green algae. The filaments are septated and reproduction is by conjugation; ''Spirogyra'' is commonly used in schools to demonstrate this kind of reproductio ...
) are named in his honor. Also, taxa with the specific epithet of ''mougeotii'' are named after him, an example being '' Sorbus mougeotii'' (Mougeot's whitebeam).


Published works

* "Index alphabeticus: generum, specierum et synonymorum" with
Chrétien Géofroy Nestler Chrétien Géofroy Nestler, name also given as Christian Gottfried Nestler (1 March 1778, Strasbourg – 2 October 1832), was an Alsatian botanist and pharmacist. He studied under Louis Claude Richard in Paris, and in 1806–1810 served as a mili ...
and
Wilhelm Philippe Schimper Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (January 12, 1808 – March 20, 1880, in Lichtenberg) was an Alsatian botanist with French, later German citizenship. He was born in Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel, but spent his youth in Offwiller, a village at the foot of t ...
(1843). * ''Considérations générales sur la végétation spontanée du département des Vosges'' (1845) – General considerations on flora native to the département of Vosges. * "Stirpes cryptogamæ vogeso-rhenanæ: quas in Rheni superioris inferiorisque, nec non Vogesorum præfecturis" with Chrétien Géofroy Nestler and Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1854). English Wikisource (published works of Chrétien Géofroy Nestler)


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