Noël Martin Joseph Necker (25 December 1730 – 30 December 1793) was a
Belgian
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physician
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and
botanist.
Career
Necker was the personal physician to the court of the
Electoral Palatinate
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in
Mannheim
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. His botanical was work involved the study of
mosses (Bryophyta) on which he wrote several works, and
fungi
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on which he wrote the ''Traité sur la mycitologie''. He is also known for describing the
orchid
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genus
Dactylorhiza.
Eponyms
The moss genus ''
Neckera'', and its family, the
Neckeraceae were named in his honour.
Publications
* ''Deliciae gallobelgicae silvestres, seu Tractatus generalis plantarum gallo-belgicarum''. 2 vols. 1768
* ''Methodus Muscorum per Clases, Ordines, Genera (Juniperus dilatata & Juniperus sabina var. tamariscifolia)'' Necker, Noël Joseph de. Mannheim. 1771
* ''Physiologia muscorum, per examen analytic'' Necker, Noël Joseph de. 1774
* ''Traité sur la mycitologie ou Discours sur les champignons en général…'' 1774
* ''Phytozoologie philosophique, dans laquelle on démontre comment le nombre des genres & des especes, concernant les animaux & les vegetaux, a été limité & fixé par la nature.'' Necker, Noël Joseph de, Societatem Typographycam. 1790
* ''Corollarum ad Philos, botanicam Linnaei spectans'' Necker, Noël Joseph de, Neowedae ad Rhenum apud Societaten Typographycam. 1790
* ''Elementa botanica, genera genuina, species naturales omnium . . .'' Necker, Noël Joseph de, Societatem Typographycam. 1790
See also
*
:Taxa named by Noël Martin Joseph de Necker
References
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Scientists of the Austrian Netherlands
1730 births
1793 deaths
18th-century German physicians
18th-century botanists