Crassier
Crassier is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
History
Crassier is first mentioned in 1123 as ''de Craceio''.
Geography
Crassier has an area, , of . Of this area, or 68.5% is used for agricultural pu ...
,
Vaud
Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms b ...
– 7 January 1828) was a Swiss-German bryologist.
He studied at the
University of Lausanne
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, and at the age of 19 began work as a tutor to the princes of
Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg () was a duchy ruled by the Ernestine branch of the House of Wettin in today's Thuringia, Germany. The extinction of the line in 1825 led to a major re-organisation of the Thuringian states.
History
In 1640 the sons of the l ...
. In 1804 he was appointed ''Geheimer Legationsrath'' to the Privy Council, and later on, he worked as a
librarian
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The role of the librarian has changed much over time ...
in the city of
Gotha
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.
He was the author of an important work on mosses titled ''Muscologia recentiorum'' (1797-1803), of which several supplements were issued in the ensuing years. Later on, he published the two-volume ''Bryologia universa'' (1826–27), which was an improved edition of his earlier work. In the latter work he introduced a new system for classification of mosses; a system that is no longer used.
The genus ''
Bridelia
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Carl Ludwig Willdenow
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(1765-1812). A portion of his herbarium is now housed at the Berlin Botanical Museum, and a number of his scientific papers are kept at the ''Forschungsbibliothek Gotha,
Schloss Friedenstein
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'' in
Gotha
Gotha () is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000. The city is the capital of the Gotha (district), district of Gotha and was also a residence of the Ernestine House of Wet ...
. Also, he was the author of ''Délassements poétiques'', a well-received book of
poetry
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Spanish Wikipedia
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