Jean Jules Amann (8 March 1859,

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 ...

– 1 February 1939, Lausanne) was a Swiss pharmacist and botanist. He was a leading expert on mosses native to Switzerland.Ammann [Amann], Jules
at Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz

Biography

He studied chemistry at the

University of Lausanne The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzer ...

and in 1883 earned his pharmacy diploma in

Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zürich ...

. He then worked as a pharmacist in Rheinfelden and Zürich, and in 1886 he purchased the ''Englische Apotheke'' in Davos. In 1893 he returned to Lausanne, where he later taught classes in microscopy at the pharmacy school associated with the university. In 1901 he established his own research laboratory.

Published works

* ''Étude de la flore bryologique du Valais'', 1899 – Study on the

bryology Bryology (from Greek , a moss, a liverwort) is the branch of botany concerned with the scientific study of bryophytes ( mosses, liverworts, and hornworts). Bryologists are people who have an active interest in observing, recording, classifying ...

Valais Valais ( , , ; frp, Valês; german: Wallis ), more formally the Canton of Valais,; german: Kanton Wallis; in other official Swiss languages outside Valais: it, (Canton) Vallese ; rm, (Chantun) Vallais. is one of the 26 cantons forming the S ...

. * ''Flore des mousses de la Suisse'', 1912 (with Charles Meylan and Paul Frédéric Culmann) – Mosses of Switzerland. * ''Bryogéographie de la Suisse'', 1928 – Bryogeography of Switzerland. * ''Etude des Muscinées du Massif de Naye''. 1935 – Study on the mosses of Massif de Naye.OCLC Classify
(published works)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Amann, Jules 1859 births 1939 deaths Scientists from Lausanne University of Lausanne alumni Academic staff of the University of Lausanne Bryologists Swiss pharmacists 19th-century Swiss botanists 20th-century Swiss botanists