John Isaac Briquet
John Isaac Briquet (1870 – 1931) was a Swiss botanist, director of the Conservatoire Botanique at Geneva.[1] [2][3] He studied botany with Simon Schwendener, Adolf Engler, Marc Thury, Johannes Müller Argoviensis, and Alphonse de Candolle.[1] Besides his floristic work, he had a particular interest in the genus Galeopsis, and family Lamiaceae (Labiatae).[1] He is particularly remembered for his contributions to the Rules of Nomenclature, the precursors of the modern International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, with which he took a leading role from 1900, at a time when four sets of rules were competing for acceptance:[4]
... for more than 30 years [he] was to take de Candolle's place as the leader in nomenclatural matters and ... by his clear-headedness, good nature, and judicial attitude was to contribute much to the solution of their problems.
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- ^ a b c Gleason, H. A. (1932). "Obituary". Science 76 (1968): 247–248. doi:10.1126/science.76.1968.247. PMID 17731050.
- ^ "Index of Botanists". Harvard University Herbaria. http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?mode=details&botanistid=2062. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
- ^ "Briquet, John Isaac (1870–1931)". Aluka. http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000001057. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
- ^ Weatherby, C.A. (1949). "Botanical Nomenclature Since 1867". American Journal of Botany 36 (1): 5–7. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2438113.
- ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.
- Luc Lienhard: John Briquet in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
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