Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle

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Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (15 June 1746 - 18 August 1800) was an 18th century French botanist and magistrate. Born into an affluent upper-class Parisian family, connections with the French Royal Court secured him the position of Superindent of Parisian Waters and Forests at the age of twenty-six.^[1] In this capacity, L'Héritier conducted various studies of native trees and shrubs, also gaining interest in exotic flora.

The standard author abbreviation L'Hér. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

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Works

Stirpes Novae aut minus cognitae, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit... Paris, ex typographia Philippi-Dionysii Pierres (1784) - (1791) - on line, Gallica
Sertum anglicum
Geraniologia, seu Erodii, Pelargonii, Geranii, Monsoniae et Grieli, Historia iconibus illustrata, Parisii, Typo Petri-Francisci Didot (1787-1788; 1792); plates by Pierre-Joseph Redouté on line.
Cornus: specimen botanicum sistens descriptiones et icones specierum corni minus cognitarum, Parisiis, Typis Petri-Francisci Didot, (1788). MGB Library, on Line.
"Mémoire sur un nouveau genre de plants appelé Cadia", Magasin encyclopédique, (1795)

References

^ Erickson, Robert F. (2003). Charles Louis L Héritier de Brutelle, 1746 - 1800. MBG Rare Books.
^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.

Sir Joseph Banks, 1958, The Banks Letters. A Calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks. Edited by Warren R. Dawson.
James Britten and B. B. Woodward, 1905, "L’Héritier’s Botanical Works". The Journal of Botany. v. 43:266-273; 325-329.
Günther Buchheim, "A bibliographical account of L’Héritier’s ‘Stirpes novae’." Huntia, v. 2:29-58. 1965.
Georges Cuvier, 1819, Recueil des Éloges Historiques, v. 1:109-133.
Théodore J. E. Hamy, 1905, Joseph Dombey, sa vie, son oeuvre, sa correspondance.
Frans A. Stafleu, 1963, L’Héritier de Brutelle: the man and his work, Sertum Anglicum, facs. ed. xiii-xliii.
Arthur Robert Steele, 1964, Flowers for the King.