Henri François Pittier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henri François Pittier

Swiss botanist (1857-1950)

Date of Birth: 13-Aug-1857

Place of Birth: Bex, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland

Date of Death: 27-Jan-1950

Profession: naturalist, engineer, botanist

Nationality: United States, Switzerland, Venezuela

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Henri François Pittier de Fabrega (August 13, 1857 in Bex, Switzerland – January 27, 1950 in Caracas, Venezuela) was a Swiss-born geographer and botanist who started Venezuelan National Park history.He graduated as an engineer from the University of Jena and moved to Costa Rica in 1887, where he founded the Physical Geographic Institute and an herbarium.
Pittier collected fungi in Costa Rica which was published as a paper in 1896 by Marietta Hanson Rousseau and Elisa Caroline Bommer.
Pittier arrived in Venezuela in 1917, where he classified more than 30,000 plants and devoted many years to studying the flora and fauna in the country.
Henri Pittier National Park was the first national park established in Venezuela.The plant genera Pittiera (now considered a synonym of Polyclathra), Pittierella (now considered a synonym of Cryptocentrum) and Pittierothamnus (now considered a synonym of Amphidasya) are named after him.
His name is also associated with Pittier's crab-eating rat, Ichthyomys pittieri.
and more than 500 species honor him.
The Venezuelan government grants the Henri Pittier Order of Merit to Conservation.