François Joseph Lestiboudois (20 January 1759 – 26 July 1815) was a French

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 ...

. Born at

Lille Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in F ...

, he was the son of

Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois (30 January 1715, Douai – 20 March 1804, Lille) was a French botanist and pharmacist. His son François Joseph Lestiboudois (1759-1815) and grandson Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois (1797-1876) were also botanist ...

(1715–1804), a professor of botany at the ''École centrale du département du Nord à Lille'' and was the father of botanist

Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois (12 October 1797, Lille – 22 November 1876, Paris) was a French naturalist. He was the son of botanist François Joseph Lestiboudois (1759-1815) and the grandson of Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois (1715-1804), ...

(1797–1876). Lestiboudois was a professor of botany at Lille and a member of the ''Société des sciences, de l'agriculture et des arts de Lille''.Sociétés savantes
(biographical information) He is best remembered for publication of ''Botanographie belgique'' (first edition in 1781). He was also the author of ''Botanographie universelle, ou, Tableau général des végétaux'' (1804).WorldCat Identities
(publications) He died in Lille in 1815.

Bibliography

* ''Botanographie belgique, ou Méthode pour connoître facilement toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement : ou que l'on cultive communément dans les provinces septentrionales de la France''. A Lille : De l'Imprimerie de J.B. Henry ..., 1781 - Belgian botanography; method for easy identification of naturally or commonly grown plants in the northern provinces of France. * ''Botanographie universelle, ou, Tableau général des végétaux''. Lille : Vanackere, an XII de la République .e. 1804- Universal botanography; general table of plants.

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