Alicia Lourteig

Alicia Lourteig is a Botaniste Argentine, born the December 17th 1913 with Buenos Aires and dead the July 30th 2003.

It makes its studies in Argentine and obtains there its doctorate of Biochimie and Pharmacie to the faculty of medical sciences of Buenos Aires in 1946. Lourteig works at the Institute Miguel Lillo de Tucumán of 1938 with 1946. Of 1938 with 1946, it works at the Darwinion Institute and works on large Herbier S like those of the royal Botanical gardens of Kew (1948 with 1950), of Stockholm (1950 - 1951), of Copenhagen (1951), of Boston (1952 - 1953) or of Washington (1953).

At the request of Jean-Henri Humbert (1887-1967), it is recruited with CNRS in 1955 and works consequently at the laboratory of phanerogamy of the national Muséum of natural history. It becomes senior research worker in 1979.

If it starts to work initially on the flora of Argentine, it extends its research on S of the areas néotropicales and moderate. It takes part in particular in the supplement supplementing and updating the Flore of France of Hippolyte Coste (1858-1924).

It takes part in the activity of many learned societies whose Société of biogeography and takes part in the review Lilloa .

It takes part in work of drafting of the international Code of the botanical nomenclature. Lourteig works in particular on historical herbaria like those of Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858), of Jose Celestino Mutis (1731-1808) or mainly of Charles Plumier (1646-1704). In addition to missions in South America, she studies the flora present on the southern and antarctic Lands French (its name was given to a lake Kerguelen). A score of Taxon S were dedicated to him. She is the author of more than 200 publications.

Source

C. Sastre (2003). Alicia Lourteig (1913-2003). Adansonia , series 3, 25 (2): 149-150.

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