Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz (27 January 1731, in
Metz
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– 13 January 1807, in
Paris
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) was a French
physician
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...
,
lawyer and
naturalist.
Buc'hoz become a doctor of medicine in
Nancy in 1763. He was devoted to botany, but was also interested in the treatment of
melancholy and recommended music as therapy. He travelled throughout his native
Lorraine
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and published a 13-volume of the province. Teaching botany as well, he was demonstrator at the . Author of many works of botany he also studied animals (in particular
birds) and
minerals
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.
Partial list of publications
* .
* . Lacombe, Paris 1768
Digital editionby the
University and State Library Düsseldorf)
* , 1770.
1774.
* , 1775.
* . Felßeker, Nürnberg 177
Digital editionby the
University and State Library Düsseldorf
* , Paris: chez l'auteur, 1781.
* , Paris: chez l'auteur, 1782.
* , Paris: chez l'auteur, 1783.
* , 1785.
* .
References
*Larousse, P. 1865-1876 ''Grand Dict. du XIX. Siècle''
*
Rose, H. J. 1850 ''New General Biographical Dictionary''.
External links
GallicaDownloads of ''Herbier ou collection des plantes médicinales de la Chine'' and ''L'art alimentaire''
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Buchoz, Pierre Joseph
French naturalists
18th-century French botanists
French entomologists
French ornithologists
1731 births
1807 deaths