François Pellegrin

François Pellegrin
François Pellegrin
Born	September 25, 1881; Paris ; 6e arrondissement
Died	April 9, 1965 (aged 83); Paris ; 18e arrondissement
Nationality	French
	Scientific career
Fields	Botany
Author abbrev. (botany)	Pellegr.

François Pellegrin (born 25 September 1881 in Paris's 6^e arrondissement,[1][2] and died on 9 April 1965 in the Hôpital Bichat in the 18^e arrondissement)[3] was a French botanist, who specialised in the plants of tropical Africa.[4]

He published some 623 plant names,[5] and has been honoured in the specific epithets of many plant species, such as, for example, Bikinia pellegrinii, Euphorbia pellegrinii, Hymenostegia pellegrinii, Polyceratocarpus pellegrinii, and Sericanthe pellegrinii.

Biography

He studied under Bureau and van Tieghem, and by 1912 had presented his thesis for his doctorate and become an assistant to Professor Paul Henri Lecomte, when war broke out in 1914. In 1914 he was gravely wounded, taken prisoner by the Germans, and after several months "returned" under the requirement to live in a neutral country. Thus, in Switzerland, at the University of Geneva and at the Botanical conservatory, under the professors Robert Hippolyte Chodat and John Isaac Briquet, he returned to his botanical research.[4]

Selected publications

1920 Les bois du Cameroun, Paris, E. Larose
1924 La Flore du Mayombe d'après les récoltes de M. Georges Le Testu (1re partie), Caen, Société linnéenne de Normandie.
1938 La Flore du Mayombe d'après les récoltes de M. Georges Le Testu (3me partie), Caen, Société linnéenne de Normandie.
1948 Supplément à la flore générale de l'Indo-Chine ; Dichapétalacées. Opiliacées, olacacées, aptandracées, schoepfiacées, erythropalacées, icacinacées, phytocrénacées, cardioptéridacées. Aquifoliacées (with M.-L. Tardieu-Blot & F. Gagnepain), Paris : Muséum d'histoire naturelle.

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References

Archives de Paris 6^e arrondissement, acte de naissance n^o2403 year 1881 (vue 8/31) (avec mention marginale de décès)
Archives de Paris, registre matricule n^o1593, classe 1901, bureau de Paris (avec mention de la profession)
Archives de Paris 18^e}} arrondissement, acte de décès n^o1108}}, 1965, (vue 10/31)
Léandri, J. (1965). "François Pellegrin (1881–1965)". Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France. 112 (3–4): 182–185.
"Pellegrin, Francois (1881-1965) International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
IPNI. Pellegr.

External links

François Pellegrin: publications listed by BnF

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[1] Archives de Paris 6^e arrondissement, acte de naissance n^o2403 year 1881 (vue 8/31) (avec mention marginale de décès)

[2] Archives de Paris, registre matricule n^o1593, classe 1901, bureau de Paris (avec mention de la profession)

[3] Archives de Paris 18^e}} arrondissement, acte de décès n^o1108}}, 1965, (vue 10/31)

[leandri-4] Léandri, J. (1965). "François Pellegrin (1881–1965)". Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France. 112 (3–4): 182–185.

[5] "Pellegrin, Francois (1881-1965) International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 7 February 2020.

[6] IPNI. Pellegr.