Jules Amann

Jean Jules Amann (8 March 1859, Lausanne – 1 February 1939, Lausanne) was a Swiss pharmacist and botanist. He was a leading expert on mosses native to Switzerland.[1]

Biography

He studied chemistry at the University of Lausanne and in 1883 earned his pharmacy diploma in Zürich. He then worked as a pharmacist in Rheinfelden and Zürich, and in 1886 he purchased the Englische Apotheke in Davos. In 1893 he returned to Lausanne,[2] where he later taught classes in microscopy at the pharmacy school associated with the university. In 1901 he established his own research laboratory.[1]

Published works
  • Étude de la flore bryologique du Valais, 1899 – Study on the bryology of Valais.
  • Flore des mousses de la Suisse, 1912 (with Charles Meylan and Paul Frédéric Culmann) – Mosses of Switzerland.
  • Bryogéographie de la Suisse, 1928 – Bryogeography of Switzerland.
  • Etude des Muscinées du Massif de Naye. 1935 – Study on the mosses of Massif de Naye.[3]
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References
  1. Ammann [Amann], Jules at Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz
  2. Jean Jules Amann (8.3.1859 - 1.2.1939) Archived 2016-02-01 at the Wayback Machine ETH Zurich; Zürich Herbaria
  3. OCLC Classify (published works)
  4. IPNI.  J.J.Amann.
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