François Pellegrin (25 September 1881, in Paris's 6
e arrondissement – 9 April 1965, in the Hôpital Bichat in the 18
e arrondissement) was a French botanist, who specialised in the plants of tropical Africa.
He published some 623 plant names,
and has been honoured in the specific epithets of many plant species, such as, for example, ''
Bikinia pellegrinii'', ''
Euphorbia pellegrinii'', ''
Hymenostegia pellegrinii'', ''
Polyceratocarpus pellegrinii'', and ''
Sericanthe pellegrinii''.
He was also honoured in 1935 by botanist
Hermann Otto Sleumer who published ''
Pellegrinia'', a genus of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...
s from south America, belonging to the family
Ericaceae
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.
Biography
He studied under
Bureau
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and
van Tieghem, and by 1912 had presented his thesis for his doctorate and become an assistant to Professor
Paul Henri Lecomte
Paul Henri Lecomte (8 January 1856, in Saint-Nabord, Vosges – 12 June 1934, in Paris) was a French botanist.
In 1884, after attaining a number of degrees, Lecomte became a professor at Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris. In addition to his teaching dut ...
, when war broke out in 1914. In 1914 he was gravely wounded, taken prisoner by the Germans, and after several months "returned" under the requirement to live in a neutral country. Thus, in Switzerland, at the University of Geneva and at the Botanical conservatory, under the professors
Robert Hippolyte Chodat
Robert Hippolyte Chodat (4 June 1865, Moutier – 28 April 1934) was a Swiss botanist and phycologist who was a professor and director of the botanical institute at the University of Geneva.
He studied medicine and botany at Geneva, where he was ...
and
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, , he returned to his botanical research.
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Selected publications
*192
Les bois du Cameroun
Paris, E. Larose
*192
La Flore du Mayombe d'après les récoltes de M. Georges Le Testu
(1re partie), Caen, Société linnéenne de Normandie.
* 193
La Flore du Mayombe d'après les récoltes de M. Georges Le Testu
(3me partie), Caen, Société linnéenne de Normandie.
*194
Supplément à la flore générale de l'Indo-Chine ; Dichapétalacées. Opiliacées, olacacées, aptandracées, schoepfiacées, erythropalacées, icacinacées, phytocrénacées, cardioptéridacées. Aquifoliacées
(with M.-L. Tardieu-Blot & F. Gagnepain), Paris : Muséum d'histoire naturelle.
References
External links
François Pellegrin: publications listed by BnF
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pellegrin, François
20th-century French botanists
1881 births
1965 deaths
Scientists from Paris