Pierre Joseph Garidel (1 August 1658 – 6 June 1737) was a French botanist.

Early life

Pierre-Joseph Garidel was born on 1 August 1658 in Manosque.Christie's: GARIDEL, Pierre Joseph (1658-1737). Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix, et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence. Aix: Joseph David, 1715.
/ref> His father was Pierre Garidel, a lawyer, and his mother, Louise de Barthelemy.
/ref> He studied Medicine at the Aix-Marseille University, University of Aix-en-Provence and the University of Montpellier.

Career

He became a Professor of Botany at the Aix-en-Provence. Together with Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, he studied plants from Provence. Meanwhile, he called on the French nobility to take up botany as a hobby alongside hunting.R.L. Williams, ''Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France: The Spirit of the Enlightenment'', Springer Science & Business Media, 31 Oct 2001, p.

/ref> In 1735, he published, ''Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence'', which describes 1,400 plants. In the preface, he writes about the history of botany in Provence and the medicinal uses of plants.University of Wales Online Exhibitions: From Herbals to Floras: Garidel (1715)
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Death

He died on 6 June 1737 in Aix-en-Provence.

Legacy

The garidella, a subclass of the thalamiflorae, was named in his honour.

References

1658 births 1737 deaths People from Aix-en-Provence 17th-century French botanists 18th-century French botanists {{France-botanist-stub