François Joseph Lestiboudois Explained

François Joseph Lestiboudois (20 January 1759 – 26 July 1815) was a French botanist.^[1] Born at Lille, he was the son of Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois (1715–1804), a professor of botany at the École centrale du département du Nord à Lille and was the father of botanist Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois (1797–1876).

Lestiboudois was a professor of botany at Lille and a member of the Société des sciences, de l'agriculture et des arts de Lille.^[2] He is best remembered for publication of Botanographie belgique (first edition in 1781). He was also the author of Botanographie universelle, ou, Tableau général des végétaux (1804).^[3] He died in Lille in 1815.

Bibliography

• Botanographie belgique, ou Méthode pour connoître facilement toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement : ou que l'on cultive communément dans les provinces septentrionales de la France. A Lille : De l'Imprimerie de J.B. Henry ..., 1781 - Belgian botanography; method for easy identification of naturally or commonly grown plants in the northern provinces of France.
• Botanographie universelle, ou, Tableau général des végétaux. Lille : Vanackere, an XII de la République [i.e. 1804] - Universal botanography; general table of plants.^[3]

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=CMhLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA49 Bulletin, Volume 12 by Société d'études de la province de Cambrai, Lille
2. http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=101170 Sociétés savantes
3. http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2001-60786 WorldCat Identities