Pierre Étienne Simon Duchartre, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French botanist
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Place of Birth: Portiragnes, Occitania, France
About Pierre Étienne Simon Duchartre
- Pierre Étienne Simon Duchartre (27 October 1811, Portiragnes – 5 November 1894, Meudon) was a French botanist. He studied biology in Toulouse, where after graduation he worked as a teacher.
- From 1837 he taught classes in Fumel, several years later moving to Paris, where in 1848 he was accepted by the faculty of sciences.
- During the following year, he was appointed a professor of botany and plant physiology at the Institut agronomique in Versailles.
- In 1861 he attained the chair of botany at the Sorbonne.In 1854 he was co-founder of the Société Botanique de France, an institution in which he served as president on several separate occasions.In 1850 he experimented with sulfur as a remedy against powdery mildew, a fungus that had a serious negative impact on European grapes during the mid-19th century.
- The genus Duchartrea (family Gesneriaceae) was named in his honor by botanist Joseph Decaisne.
- He is the binomial author of many species from the botanical family Aristolochiaceae.
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