Jacques Daléchamps

Jacques Daléchamps (* 1523 in Caen, † May 1, 1588 in Lyon) was a French physician and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Daléchamps ".

Life

Daléchamps studied from 1545 at the University of Montpellier and was awarded a doctorate in 1547. The naturalist and physician Guillaume Rondelet had great influence on Daléchamps. After working several years in Grenoble and Valence, he came to Lyon in 1552; there he was, until his death doctor at the Hôtel -Dieu.

Daléchamps was one of the most important botanists of the Renaissance. His most important work is the Historia generalis plantarum, which is one of the fundamental Herbals his time in which he has described about 3,000 species, many of which are also shown.

Further works are surgery Francoise (Lyon, 1570) as well as the translation of Galen: Administration anatomiques de Claude Galien, traduictes fidèlement du grec en françois par M. Jacques Dalechamps ... corrigées s infinis passages avec extrême diligence you traducteur. He translated ancient scientific and medical works, Gaius Plinius Secundus, among others.

Ehrentaxon

Charles Plumier named in his honor the genus Dalechampsia the plant family of the spurge family ( Euphorbiaceae ). Linnaeus later took the name.

Writings (selection )

• Histoire générale des plantes. Volume 1 and Volume 2
• Historia generalis plantarum. Edition of 1586 at Google Books
• Edition of 1615 at the University and State Library Dusseldorf