Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois

Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois is a Botaniste French, born in 1715 with Douai and dead the March 20th 1804 with Lille.

He is pharmacist as a chief of the French Army in 1739 and benefits from the various military campaigns to herborize. He is named professor of Botanique to the faculty of Lille.

He makes appear in 1737 a report praising the advantages of the culture of the Potato. He is the principal writer of Pharmacopoea, jussu senatus insulensis thirdly published (1772). He proposes, in 1774, in his Carte of botany a method combining the system of Tournefort and that of Linnée. He supplements this work by a elementary Abrégé of botany .

His/her son, François-Joseph Lestiboudois (? - 1815), and its grandson, Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois (1797-1876), are both botanists.

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