Félix de Avelar Brotero, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Portuguese botanist
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Place of Birth: Kingdom of Portugal, Portugal
About Félix de Avelar Brotero
- Félix de Avelar Brotero (25 November 1744 – 4 August 1828) was a Portuguese botanist and professor.
- He fled to France in 1788 to escape persecution by the Portuguese Inquisition, and there published his Compendio de Botanica in order to earn his living.
- It immediately established his reputation as a botanist, and upon his return to Portugal in 1790 he was given the chair of botany and agriculture at the University of Coimbra.
- His two best known works, Flora lusitanica, 1804, and Phytographia Lusitaniae selectior, 1816–1827, were the first lengthy descriptions of native Portuguese plants.
- As director of the botanical gardens at Coimbra (see Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra) and Ajuda (Lisbon), he reorganized and enlarged them.
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