Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri

botanist (1762-1828)

Date of Birth: 28-Nov-1762

Place of Birth: Crassier, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland

Date of Death: 07-Jan-1828

Profession: poet, librarian, botanist, bryologist

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri (28 November 1761 in Crassier, Vaud – 7 January 1828) was a Swiss-German bryologist. He studied at the University of Lausanne, and at the age of 19 began work as a tutor to the princes of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.
In 1804 he was appointed Geheimer Legationsrath to the Privy Council, and later on, he worked as a librarian in the city of Gotha. He was the author of an important work on mosses titled Muscologia recentiorum (1797-1803), of which several supplements were issued in the ensuing years.
Later on, he published the two-volume Bryologia universa (1826–27), which was an improved edition of his earlier work.
In the latter work he introduced a new system for classification of mosses; a system that is no longer used. The genus Bridelia was named in his honor by German botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812).
A portion of his herbarium is now housed at the Berlin Botanical Museum, and a number of his scientific papers are kept at the Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Schloss Friedenstein in Gotha.
Also, he was the author of Délassements poétiques, a well-received book of poetry.