Charles Louis the Heir to Brutelle
Charles Louis the Heir to Brutelle , born with Paris the June 15th 1746 and dead assassinated in Paris the August 16th 1800, is a French magistrate, impassioned Botanique.
He is prosecutor of the king to the Control of National Forestry Commission, then to advise at the Court of the assistances. Its botanical work, scorned a little by its contemporaries, was recognized and developed by Carl Ludwig von Willdenow (1765-1812) and Augustin Pyrame de Candolle (1778-1841). In 1790, it enters like associated botanist with the Academy of Science, where he becomes member of the section of botany and vegetable physics in 1795.
It left a Herbier approximately: 8000 species and a very important botanical library. He worked in particular on the Géraniacées and published in 1792 a work entitled Geranologia . One owes him the distinction between the three kinds Geranium , Pelargonium and Erodium . It in particular made appear Stirpes novae aut washout cognitae, quas descriptionibus and iconibus illustravit Carolus Ludovicus the Heir (2 volumes, Paris, 1784-1785).
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