Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French botanist (1801–1876)
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
- Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart (French: [ad?lf teod??? b??~?a??]) FRS FRSE FGS (14 January 1801 – 18 February 1876) was a French botanist.
- He was the son of the geologist Alexandre Brongniart and grandson of the architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart.
- Brongniart's pioneering work on the relationships between extinct and existing plants has earned him the title of father of paleobotany.
- His major work on plant fossils was his Histoire des végétaux fossiles (1828–37).
- He wrote his dissertation on the Buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae), an extant family of flowering plants, and worked at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris until his death.
- In 1851, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
- This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Brongn.
- when citing a botanical name.
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