Jean Beauverie (18 February 1874 in
Fontaines-sur-Saône
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– 22 February 1938 in
Lyon) was a French
botanist
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and
mycologist
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.
In 1894 he obtained his degree in
natural sciences, followed by work as a botanical ''préparateur'', then a lecturer, at the
University of Lyon. In 1912 he was a lecturer at the faculty of sciences in
Nancy, where he eventually became an
associate professor
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. Later he gained a professorship at
Clermont-Ferrand, and in 1923 returned as a professor to Lyon.
[Sociétés savantes de France]
(biography)
From 1895 to 1938, he was a member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon, serving as its president on two separate occasions (1907 and 1928). He was also a member of the
Société botanique de France
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(1919), the
Société mycologique de France
The Société mycologique de France (Mycological Society of France), often known by the abbreviation SMF, is an association linking French and French-speaking mycologists.
History
The society was founded in 1884 in Épinal in the Vosges by thr ...
and Société botanique de Lyon (vice-president 1910, president 1912).
[
In 1912 Jean Paul Vuillemin named the genus '' Beauveria'' (family Clavicipitaceae) in his honor for his work the previous year on the type species - '' B. bassiana'' - transferring it from '']Botrytis Botrytis may refer to:
* ''Botrytis'' (fungus), the anamorphs of fungi of the genus ''Botryotinia''
**''Botrytis cinerea'', a mold important in wine making
*Botrytis, the cauliflower cultivar group of ''Brassica oleracea
''Brassica oleracea'' is ...
''.
Selected works
* ''Études sur le polymorphisme des champignons; influence du milieu'', 1900 – Studies of polymorphism
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Computing
* Polymorphism (computer science), the ability in programming to present the same programming interface for differing underlying forms
* Ad hoc polymorphis ...
in mushrooms; environmental influences.
* ''Étude sur les champignons des maisons'', 1903.
* ''Le bois'', 1905.
* ''Atlas colorié de la flore alpine. Jura, Pyrénées, Alpes françaises, Alpes suisses'', 1906 (with Louis Faucheron) – Atlas of alpine flora Alpine flora may refer to:
* Alpine tundra, a community of plants that live at high altitude
* Alpine plant
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, Jura, Pyrénées, French Alps and Swiss Alps
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.
* ''Les textiles végétaux'', 1913 (with M H Lecomte) – plant textiles.
* ''Les gymnospermes, vivantes et fossiles'', 1933 – Gymnosperms, living and fossil.
* ''Les cryptogames vasculaires, vivantes et fossiles'', 1936 – Vascular cryptogams, living and fossil.OCLC Classify
(publications)
See also
*
List of mycologists
References
External links
IDREF.fr(lengthy bibliography).
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1874 births
1938 deaths
People from Lyon Metropolis
French mycologists
19th-century French botanists
University of Lyon faculty
20th-century French botanists