Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois

Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois is a Médecin, a Botaniste and a Politician French, born the August 12th 1797 with Lille and dead November 22nd 1876 with Paris.

He is the son of the botanist François-Joseph Lestiboudois (? - 1815) and grandson of Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois (1715-1804), Botanical professor of to the Faculty of Science of Lille. It obtains its title of doctor of medicine in 1818 with Paris. Lestiboudois goes in Algérie to study there the epidemic of Peste of 1835. He is elected appointed in 1842. Passenger of the train on the railroad of North at the time of the terrible accident of Rœux, it takes part in first aid with the victims, in spite of his own wounds. It presented to the Faculty of Science of Paris a thesis of botany in 1848 on anatomical phyllotaxy.

He is the author of:

Test on the family of Cypéracées (young Didot, Paris, 1819).
Republication of the work of his/her father, Botanographie Belgium, or flora of north of France, and Belgium itself (Roret, Paris, Vanackere, Lille, two volumes, 1826).
general Report/ratio on the epidemic of the cholera which reigned in Lille in 1832 (printing works L. Danel, Lille, about 1832).
Studies on the anatomy and the physiology of the plants (Treuttel and Wurtz, Paris, 1840).
Économie practices nations, or Economic system applicable to the various regions, and especially to France (L. Colas, Paris, 1847).
Voyage in Algeria, or Studies on the colonization of French Africa (printing works L. Danel, Lille, 1853).

Sources

Biography of the 750 representatives to the legislative Parliament: elected officials on May 13rd, 1849 by two journalists , Pagnerre, Paris, 1849.

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