Pierre Martin Rémi Aucher-Éloy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French botanist
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Place of Birth: Blois, Centre-Val de Loire, France
About Pierre Martin Rémi Aucher-Éloy
- Pierre Martin Remi Aucher-Éloy (2 October 1792 – 6 October 1838) was a French pharmacist and botanist who was a native of Blois. He received his education at Orléans and later Paris.
- Beginning in 1817, he operated a bookstore in Blois, and in 1820, also a print shop.
- In 1826 he returned to Paris as owner of a print shop.
- In 1830 he relocated to Istanbul with aims of creating an Herbier d'Orient.
- For the next several years he collected and studied plants throughout Asia Minor, Cyprus, Greece, Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula, Chios, Kos, Syria, Persia, Oman, et al.
- Stricken by exhaustion and illness, he died near Isfahan on 6 October 1838. Aucher sold his collections to the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, from where they were distributed to various herbaria.
- His book Relations de Voyages en Orient de 1830 à 1838 was published posthumously in 1843. His name is remembered in the Latin specific epithet of several plants, including:
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