Nicolas-Théodore de Saussure

Nicolas- Théodore de Saussure ( born October 14, 1767 in Geneva, † April 18, 1845 in Geneva) was a Swiss naturalist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " NTSauss. ".

The son of Horace - Bénédict de Saussure received his first instruction from his father, whom he helped, among others, in 1787 at the Mont- Blanc climb with the barometric investigations. During the French Revolution, he fled to England. In 1802 he returned to Geneva and was there until 1835 Honorary Professor of Mineralogy and Geology at the Academy of Geneva.

In addition to chemical research, he also devoted himself to botany. His major work, the " Recherches chimiques sur la vegetation " (Paris 1804; German by Voigt, Leipzig 1805), was epoch-making plant physiology, especially the fact that he first nutrition questions dealt primarily quantitative, but then also through the championship, with which he conducted his experiments vegetation and won certain results.

Nicolas- Théodore de Saussure was repeatedly a member of the Council of Geneva. He is the grandfather of the eminent linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. 1808 appointed him the Bavarian Academy of Sciences to the corresponding 1820 to foreign members.

Works

• Chemical studies on the vegetation. 2 volumes, Engelmann, Leipzig 1890 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf