Jean-Baptiste Mougeot Explained

Jean-Baptiste Mougeot (25 September 1776, in Bruyères – 5 December 1858) was a French physician and botanist.

From 1798 to 1802, he was stationed in Germany as an army health officer, afterwards returning to his hometown of Bruyères, where he settled as a physician. From 1833 until his death in 1858, he was a member of the conseil général for the département of Vosges.^[1] Together with Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Antoine Mougeot and Chrétien Géofroy Nestler he edited some exsiccatae.^[2]

The algae genera Mougeotia and Mougeotiopsis (family Zygnemataceae) are named in his honor.^[1] Also, taxa with the specific epithet of mougeotii are named after him,^[3] an example being Sorbus mougeotii (Mougeot's whitebeam).

Published works

• "Index alphabeticus: generum, specierum et synonymorum" with Chrétien Géofroy Nestler and Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1843).
• Considérations générales sur la végétation spontanée du département des Vosges (1845) – General considerations on flora native to the département of Vosges.^[4]
• "Stirpes cryptogamæ vogeso-rhenanæ: quas in Rheni superioris inferiorisque, nec non Vogesorum præfecturis" with Chrétien Géofroy Nestler and Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1854).^[5]

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355693#page/623/mode/1up BHL
2. Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=fCcP6lFS4l8C&pg=PA687 Mosses of Eastern North America, Volume 1
4. http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?search-author-txt=%22Mougeot%2C+Jean-Baptiste%2C+1776-1858%22 OCLC Classify
5. [s:Author:Chrétien Géofroy Nestler|English Wikisource]