François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise

French botanist

Date of Birth: 16-Jul-1780

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 13-Mar-1851

Profession: physician, botanist, mycologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise (5 July 1780 in Paris – 13 March 1851 in Paris) was a French physician, botanist and mycologist. In 1803 he obtained his medical doctorate, afterwards serving as chef de clinique at the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris.
He was a member of the Académie nationale de médecine and a correspondent member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon (1824–1851).He was the taxonomic authority of the lichenized fungi genus Lasallia and of the botanical genera Corvisartia (family Asteraceae), Lerouxia (family Primulaceae) and Robertia (family Ranunculaceae).