Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle

Charles Louis L' Héritier de Brut Elle ( born June 15, 1746 Paris, † August 16, 1800 ibid murdered ) was a French lawyer and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " L' Hér. ". He was the genus Heritiera Ait honor. the plant family (Malvaceae ) named.

Life

Charles Louis L' Héritier de Brut Elle was used by the King as a civil servant ( procureur du roi ) of the Forest Service ( maitrise des eaux et Forestry ). Later he worked as a consultant at the cour des aides. As an amateur botanist, he joined in 1790 as a botanical employees ( associé botaniste ) in the Académie royale des sciences a. When this was closed in 1795 by the National Convention, and placed under the auspices of the newly founded Institut de France, the latter took him on as a member of the Department of Botany and Biophysics ( section de botanique et physique végétale ).

Work

The amateur botanist was in the years 1784 to 1785 in Paris, the two-volume work Stirpes novae aut minus cognitae, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit Carolus Ludovicus L' Héritier out. His attention was especially the cranesbill family ( Geraniaceae ), which he abhandelte in the published in 1792, titled Geranologia work. He is in particular the distinction of the genera Geranium (Geranium L.) geraniums (Pelargonium ) and herons (Erodium L' Hér. ) Owe.

Charles Louis L' Héritier de Brut Elle left a herbarium with about 8000 species and an important library of botanical plants.

His achievements in the field of botany were scarcely noticed by his contemporaries, but later by Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812) and Augustin de Candolle Pyrame (1778-1841) recognized and valued.

Selections

• Stirpes novae aut minus cognitae, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit .... Paris from 1785 to 1805.
• Sertum anglicum. From 1789 to 1792.
• Geraniologia, seu Erodii, pelargonii, geranii, Monsoniæ et Grieli .... Paris 1792 (pure panel work online at the University of Strasbourg ).