Michel Gandoger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Michel Gandoger

French botanist and mycologist

Date of Birth: 10-May-1850

Place of Birth: Arnas, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 04-Oct-1926

Profession: botanist, mycologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Michel Gandoger

  • Abbé Jean Michel Gandoger (10 May 1850 – 4 October 1926), was a French botanist and mycologist.
  • Gandoger was born in Arnas, the son of a wealthy vineyard owner in the Beaujolais region.
  • Although he took holy orders at the age of 26, he devoted his life to the study of botany, specializing in the genus Rosa.
  • He travelled throughout the Mediterranean region, notably Crete, Spain, Portugal, and Algeria, amassing a herbarium of over 800,000 specimens, now kept at the Jardin botanique de Lyon.
  • However, he is notorious for having published thousands of plant species that are no longer accepted.
  • Gandoger died at Arnas in 1926. Father J B Charbonnel published an obituary in the Bulletin de la Societe botanique de France (1927, Vol.
  • 74, 3-11), which lists Gandoger's many publications.
  • Plants with the specific epithet of gandogeri are named after him, an example being Carex gandogeri.
  • NB: Gandoger was originally known by the abbreviation Gdgr.

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