François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix

François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix ( born May 12, 1706 Alais, † February 19, 1767 in Montpellier) was a French physician, botanist and professor at the University of Montpellier. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Sauvages. ".

Life and work

He was the son of François de Boissier (1637-1720), a military, Capitaine de Régiment des Flandres, Seigneur de Sauvages and the Gilette de Boissier nee blanching ( 1674-1751 ). The couple had one daughter and four sons, one of them was Pierre Augustin Boissier de Sauvages the. He entered the Medical Faculty of the University of Montpellier on Monday, November 30, 1722 a. He was in special interested in botany and attended lectures of Pierre Baux (1708-1790), an eminent naturalist. He received his doctorate in 1726 with a dissertation on Dissertatio medica Ludicra atque amore.

Then he moved his center of life for a few years in Paris, but returned in 1734 back to Montpellier. There he became a professor of physiology and pathology. In his role, he tried the mechanistic doctrines in medicine to replace vitalistic ideas from the considerations of Georg Ernst Stahl. After the death of François Ayme Chicoyneau (1702-1740), he was appointed to the chair of botany. In Montpellier, he led major improvements at the botanical garden, such as the establishment of the first extant greenhouse.

In 1748 he married Jeanne- Yolande de Foucart d' Olympies (* 1718). The couple had five daughters and two sons.

He was a pen pal of the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, the Sauvages de Lacroix botanical specimens sent to study from the region around Montpellier. Linnaeus named the botanical genus Sauvagesia ( Ochnaceae ) in honor of his French colleagues. In 1748 he was appointed a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in which Linnaeus was a co-founder. The following year he was elected a member of the British Royal Society.

Works (selection)

  • Dissertatio medica. De motuum Vitalium causa ubi, quae Pravus mechanism usurpaverat naturae seu animae jurassic restituuntur. Montpellier, 1741
  • Mémoire sur la maladie des Bœufs you Vivarais. Rochard, Montpellier 1746
  • Dissertation sur la nature et la cause de la Rage, dans laquelle on recherche en peuvent être les Quels Préservatifs et les Remedes. Pièce qui a le Prix de l' Académie remporté Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres, proposé pour l' Année 1748. Imprimerie Pierre Robert, Toulouse 1749
  • Methodus foliorum, seu plantae florae monspeliensis, juxta foliorum ordinem, ad juvandam specierum cognitinem, digestae. Méthode pour les plantes par les feuilles connaître. La Haye 1751
  • Dissertation sur les medica mens qui affectent certaines parties du corps humain que d' autres plutôt; et la source seront cause de cet effet. Bordeaux 1751
  • Nosologia methodica sistens morborum classes, genera et species, juxta Sydenhami mentem et Botanicorum ordinem. Frères De Tournes, Amsterdam 1763, 5 volumes
  • De Venenatis Galliae Animalibus, et Venenorum in ipsis fideli Observatione compertorum indole atque Antidotis. Monspelii, apud Viduam Joannis Martel, 1764
  • Nosology méthodique, dans les maladies laquelle sont rangées par classes, suivant le système de Sydenham, & l' Ordre des botanistes. Hérissant le fils, Paris, 1771, 10 volumes
  • Pathologia methodica practica, seu de cognoscendis morbis. Editio quarta from ipso auctore aucta & emendata, Castellano, Naples 1776

After de Sauvages named taxa

  • Sauvagesia ( Ochnaceae )
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