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Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle ( UK: / kænˈdɒl /, US: / kɒ̃ˈdɔːl /, French: [kɑ̃dɔl]; 4 February 1778 – 9 September 1841) was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple of years de Candolle had established a new genus, and he ...
Augustin Pyrame de Candolle (born February 4, 1778, Geneva—died September 9, 1841, Geneva) was a Swiss botanist who established scientific structural criteria for determining natural relations among plant genera. After Charles Darwin’s introduction of the principles of organic evolution, Candolle’s criteria provided the empirical ...
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Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. 1778-1841. Swiss Botanist. A ugustin de Candolle is considered one of the most important botanists of the nineteenth century. His major contributions were in the fields of plant classification and morphology, the study of form, and in the geographical distribution of plants. Candolle was born in Geneva and his ...
May 23, 2018 · views 1,439,368 updated May 23 2018. Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de (1778–1841) A Swiss botanist who studied in Geneva and settled in Paris in 1796. At the request of the French government, he conducted a botanical and agricultural survey of the whole of France, the results of which were published in 1813. In 1816 he returned to the University ...
Candolle, Augustin de. Swiss Botanist. 1778-1841. Augustin de Candolle was a Swiss botanist who advanced significant ideas concerning the classification of plants and developed a taxonomic scheme that provided the foundation for much work in taxonomy up to the present. As did most learned men of science in his day, Candolle trained in medicine ...
Candolle, Augustin-Pyramus de (Switzerland-France 1778-1841) botany, phytogeography. As a teenager Candolle moved to Paris to pursue studies in medicine and natural history. His talent was immediately apparent, and he soon fell in with the greatest names of the day, Lamarck and Cuvier. They helped inspire him onto the road of botanical research ...
Sep 9, 2022 · September 9, 2022. Portrait of Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle as a young man, unknown artists, undated, Kew Gardens (artuk.org) Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle, a French botanist, died Sep. 9, 1841, at the age of 63. De Candolle is usually described as the greatest botanist in France in the first third of the 19th century, and much of his reputation ...
