Pierre Edmond Boissier

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Pierre Edmond Boissier (25 May 1810 Geneva - 25 September 1885 Valeyres-sous-Rances) was a Swiss botanist, explorer and mathematician. He was the son of Jacques Boissier (1784-1857) and Lucile Butini (1786-1836), daughter of Pierre Butini (1759-1838) a well-known physician and naturalist from Geneva. With his sister, Valérie Boissier (1813-1894), he received a strict education with lessons delivered in Italian and Latin. Edmond's interest in natural history stemmed from holidays in the company of his mother and his grandfather, Pierre Butini at Valeyres-sous-Rances. His hikes in the Jura and the Alps laid the foundation of his zest for later exploration and adventure. He attended a course at the Academy of Geneva given by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.

Edmond Boissier collected extensively in Europe, North Africa and western Asia, on occasion accompanied by his daughter, Caroline Barbey-Boissier (1847-1918) and her husband, William Barbey (1842-1914), who collected in their own right for their Herbier Barbey-Boissier in Geneva. Edmond Boissier covered countries such as France, Greece, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain (Balearic Islands), Switzerland, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Armenia, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey. His specimens are held at the following herbaria: AK, AWH, B, BERN, BM, BORD, BP, BR, C, CAS, CGE, CN, DBN, E, E-GL, F, FABR, FI, FR, G, GE, GH, GOET, H, HAL, JE, K, KIEL, L, LAU, LE, LY, LZ, M, MA, MANCH, MICH, MO, MPU, OXF, P, P-CO, PH, PI, TCD, TO, W, WAG, WB (see List of herbaria).^[1] He was the first to describe Galium ehrenbergii.^[2]

Works

Boissier, Edmond (1867-1884). Flora Orientalis sive enumeratio plantarum in Oriente a Graecia et Aegypto ad Indiae fines hucusque observatarum. Genevae et Basileae: apud H. Georg, Bibliopolam. Check date values in: |date= (help) Five volumes
Voyage Botanique dans le Midi de l’Espagne pendant l’annéee 1837, 1839–45
Elenchus plantarum novarum ... in itinere hispanico legit, 1838
With Georges François Reuter (1805-1872), Diagnoses plantarum novarum hispanicum, 1842
With Georges François Reuter, Pugillus plantarum novarum Africae borealis Hispaniaeque australis, 1852
Diagnoses plantarum orientalium novarum, 1842-1859
With Friedrich Alexander Buhse (1821-1898), Aufzählung der auf einer Reise durch Transkaukasien und Persien gesammelten Pflanzen, 1860
Icones Euphorbiarum, 1866

The standard author abbreviation Boiss. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[3]

Eponymy

Boissiera is a genus in the family of Poaceae.
Ulmus boissieri Grudz., an elm found in the Zagros Mountains, Iran.
Pyrus boissieriana Buhse is a species of pear found in Iran, Turcomania and Azerbaijan
Boissiera is the title of a collection of systematic botany memoirs published by the Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève (CJB).

References

↑ Aluka
↑ "Galium ehrenbergii". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved February 7, 2014.
↑ [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=Boiss. "Author Query for 'Boiss.'"]. International Plant Names Index.

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 57361312 LCCN: nr00031979 ISNI: 0000 0000 8385 3551 GND: 116233893 SUDOC: 077452860

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Name	Boissier, Pierre Edmond
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Short description	Swiss botanist
Date of birth	25 May 1810
Place of birth
Date of death	25 September 1885
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