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Mariano Lagasca y Segura (1776–1839), also known as Mariano la Gasca, was a
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botanist, writer and doctor. He was the director of the ''Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid'' (Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid).


Early life

Mariano Lagasca y Segura was born in Encinacorba,
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, in
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on 4 October 1776 to a wealthy Catholic family. He studied at the local elementary school and, afterwards, he continued his ecclesiastical studies in
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. During his studies in Tarragona, he developed an interest for medicine and botany. After finishing his studies in Tarragona, he started travelling until eventually studying medicine at first in
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, and later in
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and
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.


Career

In 1800, he moved to Madrid where he met
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, a well-known botanist and doctor and became his disciple. In Madrid, he cooperated in various fields José Demetrio Rodriguez, and co-published with him a botanical book titled Description of certain plants of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid ( es, Descripción de algunas plantas del Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid) in 1801.Colmeiro, Miguel, "La botánica y los botánicos de la Península Hispano-Lusitana : estudios bibliográficos y biográficos", Madrid, imprenta y Estereotípa de M. Rivadeneyra, 1858 Rivadeneyra In 1802, he co-published with Simón de Rojas Clemente y Rubio a volume of articles regarding medicine and botany. After the death of José Cavanilles in 1807, he was appointed to the position of the vice-director of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid. During that period, he was also working as a professor of Botany at the university of Madrid. In 1815, after the
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, he was appointed to the position of the director of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid. In 1816, he published ''Genera et species plantarum, quae aut novae sunt aut nondum recte cognoscuntur'', which contained 364 names of plants. In the following years, he would become well known in Spain, because of his work at that position. In 1823, he was exiled from Spain because of his liberal political views. He spent the following eleven years in
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, until his return to Spain in 1834 where he regained his position as a director of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid. He died five years later, on 23 June 1839, in
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References

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