Jean Bergeret (born 1751 in

Lescar Lescar (; oc, Lescar) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department and Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France. Lescar is the site of the Roman city known variously as Benearnum, Beneharnum or Civitas Benarnensium, the loca ...

- died 1813 in Paris) was a French doctor and botanist.

Biography

After his marriage in 1771, he studied philosophy and graduated in 1773. After his separation from his wife in 1780, he moved to

Morlaàs Morlaàs (; Gascon Morlans) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. It is the seat of a canton. After the Roman city of Benearnum (today's Lescar) was razed by the Vikings in 841, Morlaàs became the c ...

and began studying medicine and obtained his doctorate in 1788. During the revolution he was mayor of

. Besides practicing medicine, he taught natural history at the École centrale de Pau from 1796 to 1802. In X (1803), he wrote his only work: La ''Flore des Basses-Pyrénées'' (two volumes, Pau). There it follows the Linnean classification . Bergeret dies of an epidemic of fever affecting the region. His son, Eugène Bergeret (1799-1868), after studying medicine in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

, replaced him as doctor and as mayor.

Bibliography

* Adrien Davy de Virville (dir.) (1955). ''History of botany in France.'' SEDES (Paris): 394 p. * Benedict Dayrat (2003). ''The Botanists and the Flora of France, three centuries of discoveries.'' Scientific publications of the National Museum of Natural History: 690 p.

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1751 births 1814 deaths French botanists French physicians {{France-botanist-stub