Charles Flahault
Charles Henri Marie Flahault ( born October 3, 1852 in Bailleul ( Nord); † February 3, 1935 in Montpellier) was a French botanist and one of the founders of plant sociology. His botanical author abbreviation is " Flahault ".
Life and work
After graduation in 1872 Flahault completed an apprenticeship as a gardener at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris where the botanist Joseph Decaisne became aware of him. In Decaisne he received private lessons. From 1874 he studied at the Sorbonne in Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem ( 1839-1914 ). In 1878 he received his doctorate.
He then studied at the University of Uppsala (along with Gaston Bonnier ), where he began intensive contacts with Scandinavian colleagues. From this time also several works in which he examined the vegetation conditions in Scandinavia and the Alps comparative originate. In 1883 he was appointed as Professor of Botany at the University of Montpellier. In 1890 he founded the Botanical Institute in Montpellier. After his retirement he lived in Montpellier.
Flahault 1893 coined the term association floristically defined as the basic unit of plant sociology and those established with Carl Schroeter at the International Botanikerkonkress 1910 in Brussels. Flahault, whose main interest in addition to the theoretical foundations were the forest communities of the Mediterranean, in 1927 professor emeritus.
One of his students was Josias Braun- Blanquet, who extended the phytosociological methodology consistently.
Along with Jean -Baptiste Édouard Bornet Fahault worked in the field of taxonomy of algae (especially blue-green algae ) and fungi.
Memberships and Honors
Writings
- Flahault, Charles: Les zones botaniques dan le Bas- Languedoc et les pays voisins. Bull Soc. Bot France 40:35-62. 1893 Paris.
- Flahault, Charles and Carl Schröter ( eds.): phytogeographic nomenclature. Reports and proposals Rapporteur of the Commission on phytogeographic nomenclature. III. Congrès International de Botanique Bruxelles 14-22. Zurich 1910.
Source
- Acot, Pascal (ed.): The European origins of scientific ecology ( 1800-1901 ). 932 S. Routledge. Amsterdam., 1999. ISBN 90-5699-103-5