Augustin Abel Hector Léveillé, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French botanist
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Place of Birth: Le Mans, Pays de la Loire, France
About Augustin Abel Hector Léveillé
- Augustin Abel Hector Léveillé (13 March 1864, Le Mans – 25 November 1918) was a French botanist and clergyman. He attended medical school prior to entering into the priesthood.
- In 1887 he traveled to India as a missionary, being appointed as a professor of natural history at the College of Pondicherry.
- In 1891 he returned to France for health reasons, settling in his hometown of Le Mans.Following a meeting with botanist Adrien René Franchet in 1900, he agreed to perform studies on the many thousands of plant specimens sent by collectors from the Far East.
- From these shipments Léveillé is credited with describing around 2000 new species, with many of the plants being co-described along with Father Eugène Vaniot (1846–1913).In 1892 he founded the magazine Le Monde des Plantes, serving as its director until his death.
- During the same year he founded the Académie internationale de géographie botanique (International Academy of Botanical Geography).
- His herbarium was acquired by Scottish botanist George Forrest, a collector in Yunnan.Numerous species are named in his honor, as well as the genus Leveillea (family Asteraceae), described by Eugène Vaniot in 1903.
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