Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fairy

Happy the men who, endowed by nature, can agreeably marry pure science with the culture of the letters: they thus spare a right double with the memory of the posterity!

A.C. (1877) in the encyclopedic Dictionary of medical sciences.

Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée is a Botaniste French, born the November 7th 1789 with Ardentes and dead the May 21st 1874 with Paris.

Fairy is pharmacist under-assistance-major in 1809 and takes part in the countryside of Spain. It finishes its service with the rank of assistant medical officer. It enters as pharmacist to the school of Strasbourg in 1815. It meets in 1823, the botanist Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1755-1837), who will exert on him a great impression. In 1824, he becomes regular member of the Académie of medicine. In 1825, he is demonstrator with the military hospital of Lille then, in 1828, pharmacist-major. Fairy teaches the Botanique with Strasbourg of 1832 with 1867 where it replaces Christian Gottfried Nestler (1778-1832). It also directs, starting from this date, the Botanical garden. The thesis which it presents for obtaining this pulpit has as a title Reproduction of the plants (F. - G. Levrault, Strasbourg, 1833). It obtains, the May 14th 1833, the title of doctor in Médecine with a thesis entitled Examen of the theory of the botanico-chemical ratios . It settles in Paris after 1871. It directs the botanical Société of France in 1874.

It republishes the Systema naturae of Carl von Linné (1707-1778) in Paris in 1830 (at F. - G. Levrault) and makes always appear a Vie of Linné, written on the documents autographs left by this great man and followed analysis of its correspondence with the principal naturalists of its time to Paris in 1832 (at F. - G. Levrault). It is interested in the first botanists and makes appear the Flore of Virgile (N.E. Lemaire, 1835), the Flora of Théocrite and other bucolic Greeks (Firmin-Didot brothers, Paris, 1832), the Comments on botany and medical matter of Pline (C. - L. - F. Panckoucke, Paris, 1833).

Works

Test on the cryptogams of the officinal exotic barks, preceded by a lichenographic method and one “Generated” (two volumes, Firmin-Didot father and wire, Paris, 1824 - 1837).
lichenographic Method and “Generated ″ (Firmin-Didot father and wire, Paris, 1824).
pharmaceutical Code, or French Pharmacopeia (Paris, 1826).
Talks on botany in the popular Library of instruction. Master Pierre or the Scientist of village (F. - G. Levrault, Paris, 1835, republished by Langlois and Leclercq, Paris, in 1849).
Course of natural history pharmaceutical, or History of the used substances in the therapeutic one, arts and the economy domesticates (two volumes, Corby, Paris, 1828).
Walk in Western Switzerland and Were worth it (J. Rouvier and E. the Herdsman, Paris, 1835).
methodical Catalog of the plants of the Botanical garden of the Medical college of Strasbourg (F. - G. Levrault, Strasbourg, 1836).
Talks on the zoology in the popular Library of instruction. Master Pierre or the Scientist of village (F. - G. Levrault, Paris, 1836).
Talks on the zoology. Birds in the popular Library of instruction. Master Pierre or the Scientist of village (F. - G. Levrault, Paris, 1838).
Memories on the family of the Ferns (three volumes in two volumes, Widowed Shepherd-Levrault, Strasbourg, 1844 - 1852).
Voceri, popular songs of Corsica, preceded by an excursion made in this island in 1845, by has. - L. - has. Fairy (V. Lecou, Paris, 1850).
“Generated filicum ″, exposure of the kinds of the family of Polypodiacées (class of the Ferns) (J. - B. Baillière, Paris, 1850 - 1852).
philosophical Studies on the instinct and the intelligence of the animals (Widowed Shepherd-Levrault, Strasbourg, 1853).
Iconographie of the new species described or enumerated in “Generated filicum ″ and revision of the former publications relating to the family of the Ferns (three volumes, Veuve Shepherd-Levrault and wire, Paris, 1854 - 1865).
Memories of the war of Spain… 1809-1813 (Widowed Shepherd-Levrault and wire, Paris, 1856).
Voyage around my library, literature and philosophy (Widowed Shepherd-Levrault and wire, Paris, 1856).
Mexican Ferns, catalogs methodical (without place, 1858).
Spain at fifty years of interval, 1809-1859 (Widowed Shepherd-Levrault and wire, Paris, 1861).
Miseries of the animals (Humbert, Paris, 1863).
Darwinism, or Examination of the theory relating to the origin of the species (V. Masson and wire, Paris, 1864).
History of the Ferns and Lycopodiacées of the Antilles (J. - B. Baillière, Paris, 1866).
With the collaboration of Auguste François Marie Glaziou (1828-1906), Cryptogams vascular (ferns, lycopodiacées, hydroptéridées, équisétacées) of Brazil (two volumes, J. - B. Baillière and wire, Paris, 1869 - 1873).
Studies on the old Spanish theater. Three Cid (Guillen of Castro, Crow, Set with diamonds). Except the king, anybody. What are the women. Fragments of Celestina (Firmin-Didot brothers, wire and Co, Paris, 1873).

Sources

Benoit Dayrat (2003). Botanists and Flora of France, three centuries of discoveries. scientists Publication of the national Natural history museum of natural history: 690 p.
Amédée Dechambre (1877). encyclopedic Dictionary of medical sciences . G. Masson (Paris).

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