Augustin Saint-Hilaire

Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint -Hilaire ( born October 4, 1779 Orléans, † September 30, 1853 ibid ), also briefly Augustin Saint- Hilaire or Auguste Saint- Hilaire called, was a French botanist and explorer. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " A.St. - Hil. ".

From 1816 to 1822 he undertook a journey to South America, where he explored the hinterland of Brazil from the Northeast of Brazil to the Rio de la Plata. He collected 24,000 plants from 6,000 different species, but in addition also many species of animals, including 2,000 birds, 135 mammals and 16,000 insects. Most of these types have been described for the first time. The years after the trip he used for the study and classification of the material brought and the publication of its results. In 1830 he traveled again to South America.

His best-known works are the three-volume Flora Brasiliae meridionalis (1824-1833) and the two-volume Plantes usuélles of Brésiliens ( 1824-1828 ).

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  • Robert Zander, Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (eds.): Handbook of Plant Names. 13th edition. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.
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