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Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle (born October 27/28, 1806, Paris—died April 4, 1893, Geneva) was a Swiss botanist who introduced new methods of investigation and analysis to phytogeography, a branch of biology that deals with the geographic distribution of plants.
Augustin de Candolle was the first of four generations of botanists in the de Candolle dynasty. He married Mademoiselle Torras and their son, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, eventually succeeded to his father's chair in botany and continued the Prodromus.
Augustin 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, Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de (France-Switzerland 1806-1893) botany, phytogeography. Although not quite the revolutionary thinker his father Augustin was, Alphonse de Candolle yet exhibited a level of industry and logical acuity that led to his ascending to the top rank of nineteenth century botanists as well.
Alphonse Candolle was president of the International Botanical Congress in 1866 and in this capacity was instrumental in the publication of the first of the international rules for the naming of plants. His other significant project was a two-volume work on plant geography, on how climate and terrain affect the distribution of plants.
Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de Candolle, born in Paris, 27 October, 1806, a son of the botanist, Augustin Pyrame de Candolle, was for sixty years a prominent figure in the botanical
