Émile Burnat (21 October 1828 in

Vevey Vevey (; ; ) is a town in Switzerland in the Vaud, canton of Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Leman, near Lausanne. The German name Vivis is no longer commonly used. It was the seat of the Vevey (district), district of the same name until 200 ...

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– 31 August 1920) was a Swiss

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

He began herborizing while still in his teens, later working at the ''Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques'' in

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. He is remembered for investigations of flora found in the

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. His impressive

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is now part of the botanical conservatory in Geneva. Burnat's name is lent to the botanical genus ''

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'' and the

saxifrage ''Saxifraga'' is the largest genus in the family Saxifragaceae, containing about 473 species of holarctic perennial plants, known as saxifrages or rockfoils. The Latin word ''saxifraga'' means literally "stone-breaker", from Latin ' ("rock" or " ...

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''Saxifraga × burnatii''.

Written works

* ''Flore des Alpes maritimes ou Catalogue raisonné des plantes qui croissent spontanément dans la chaîne des Alpes maritimes, etc.''; (7 volumes 1892–1931, with

John Isaac Briquet John Isaac Briquet (13 March 1870 in Geneva – 26 October 1931 in Geneva) was a Switzerland, Swiss botanist, director of the ''Conservatoire Botanique'' at Geneva. He received his education in natural sciences at Geneva and Berlin,

and François Cavillier). * ''Catalogue raisonné des Hieracium des Alpes Maritimes''; (1883, with

August Gremli August Gremli (15 March 1833 – 30 March 1899) was a Swiss physician and botanist born in Kreuzlingen. He studied medicine in Berlin and Munich, and afterwards, trained as a pharmacist in Karlsruhe. From 1876, he worked as a curator in the herbar ...

References

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''Les collections botanique Emile Burnat''
(in French) 1828 births 1920 deaths People from Vevey 19th-century Swiss botanists {{switzerland-botanist-stub