Jean Bergeret (born 1751 in Lescar - died 1813 in Paris) was a French doctor and botanist.[1]

Biography

After his marriage in 1771, he studied philosophy and graduated in 1773. After his separation from his wife in 1780, he moved to Morlaàs and began studying medicine and obtained his doctorate in 1788. During the revolution he was mayor of Morlaàs. Besides practicing medicine, he taught natural history at the École centrale de Pau from 1796 to 1802. In X (1803), he wrote his only work: La Flore des Basses-Pyrénées (two volumes, Pau).[2] There it follows the Linnean classification . Bergeret dies of an epidemic of fever affecting the region. His son, Eugène Bergeret (1799-1868), after studying medicine in Paris, replaced him as doctor and as mayor.[3]

Bibliography

The standard author abbreviation Bergeret is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

References

  1. ^ "1813-1822". archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
  2. ^ Medicine (U.S.), National Library of (1982). National Library of Medicine Current Catalog: Cumulative listing. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine.
  3. ^ Vermorel, Henri; Bergeret, Jean; Genthialon, Bernard; Vittet, Daniel (1999). L'oeuvre de Jean Bergeret: d'une pratique à une théorie de la clinique (in French). Delachaux et Niestlé. ISBN 978-2-603-01157-7.
  4. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Bergeret.


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