Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri
Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri | |
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Born | 28 November 1761 |
Died | 7 January 1828 | (aged 66)
Nationality | Swiss |
Alma mater | University of Lausanne |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Bryology |
Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri (28 November 1761 in
bryologist
.
He studied at the
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 the classification of mosses; a system that is no longer used.
The genus .
References
- [1] translated biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- Pierer's Universal-Lexicon (translated biography)
- Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the Spanish Wikipedia.