Ludovic Savatier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ludovic Savatier

French military doctor, botanist, explorer

Date of Birth: 19-Oct-1830

Place of Birth: Oléron, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 25-Aug-1891

Profession: physician, botanist, explorer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Ludovic Savatier

  • Paul AmedĂ©e Ludovic Savatier (19 October 1830 – 27 August 1891) was a French botanist.Savatier was born on the island of OlĂ©ron in 1830, and studied medicine at the Naval Medical School of Rochefort.
  • He subsequently became a high-ranking medical officer in the French Navy.
  • In 1865, as part of a French effort to support the construction of a Japanese Navy, he travelled to Japan, and spent the next decade there, based at Yokosuka.
  • During his tenure there he devoted himself primarily to botany, attempting to impart the Linnean model to Japanese botanical classifications.
  • He collaborated with a large number of other botanists and researchers, including Japanese botanists Keisuke Ito and Yoshio Tanaka, and Frederick Victor Dickins, a fellow naval medical officer (in the British Navy).
  • This work eventually resulted in a joint publication with his colleague Adrien RenĂ© Franchet, entitled Enumeratio Plantenum in Japonia Sponte Crescentium, which was published in Paris in 1875 (vol.
  • 1) and 1879 (vol.
  • 2).
  • Savatier also translated existing texts on Japanese botany, including works by Ono Ranzan.
  • In his capacity as a medical officer, he was also responsible for a systematic study of venereal disease among the French sailors and prostitutes of the port.In 1876 Savatier returned to France.
  • Shortly thereafter he was assigned to a naval expedition headed for the Pacific.
  • During this voyage, he made excursions in both South and North America, and made a detailed botanical study of the flora of Tahiti.
  • He published an article about his voyage, which was made in part on the ship La Magicienne.The standard author abbreviation Sav.
  • is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.Savatier died at Saint-Georges-d'OlĂ©ron in 1891.

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