Charles Louis L’Héritier de Brutell
1746–1800
French botanist. Active in court circles and the Jardin du roi; published on plants newly introduced into Europe. Published Geraniologia (1792). Lost his fortune during the French Revolution, and was assassinated in 1800.
Source
DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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