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Jean Guillaume BruguièreJean Guillaume Bruguière (1749 or 1750 - 1798) was a French physician, zoologist and diplomat. Additional recommended knowledgeBruguière was born in Montpellier. He was a doctor, connected to the University of Montpellier. His was interested in invertebrates, mostly snails. He accompanied the explorer Kerguelen-Trémarec on his first voyage to the Antarctic in 1773. In 1790 he accompanied the entomologist Olivier on an expedition to Persia, but his poor health didn't allow him to continue. In 1792, although he was ill, he visited the Greek archipelago and the Middle East, together with the entomologist Guillaume-Antoine Olivier. He died on the voyage back. He described several taxa in his book Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des trois Règnes de la Nature: vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypes divers) which appeared in three volumes in 1827, long after he had died. He also wrote Histoire Naturelle des Vers. Vol. 1 (1792) but he had to stop at the letter "C". Christian Hee Hwass continued his work and wrote most of it. He died in October 1798 (and not in 1799, as mentioned in some sources; there was a discrepancy due to the French revolutionary calendar). His interest went mainly to molluscs and invertebrates, as can be seen in the following choice of the taxa he named. Genera
Species
The genus Bruguiera (mangrove trees from the family Rhizophoraceae) has been named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in his honor. References
Categories: French malacologists | Conchologists |
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