François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise

François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise (5 July 1780, Paris – 13 March 1851, Paris) was a French physician, botanist and mycologist.

In 1803 he obtained his medical doctorate, afterwards serving as chef de clinique at the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris. He was a member of the Académie nationale de médecine and a correspondent member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon (1824–1851).[1]

He was the taxonomic authority of the lichenized fungi genus Lasallia [2] and of the botanical genera Corvisartia (family Asteraceae), Lerouxia (family Primulaceae) and Robertia (family Ranunculaceae).[3]

Written works

With Adrien Jacques de Lens, he was co-author of a medical dictionary, titled "Dictionnaire universel de matière médicale et de thérapeutique générale", published in seven volumes from 1829 to 1846. Other written efforts by Mérat de Vaumartoise include:

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sociétés savantes de France biographical/bibliographical information
  2. Calflora The Eponym Dictionary of Southern African Plants, Plant Names L-O
  3. IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Mérat de Vaumartoise.
  4. English Wikisource bibliography
  5. OCLC WorldCat Nouvelle flore des environs de Paris...La cryptogamie.
  6. "Author Query for 'Mérat'". International Plant Names Index.