John Isaac Lighter

See also: Lighter (homonymy)

John Isaac Briquet is a Botaniste Suisse, born the March 13rd 1870 with Geneva and dead the October 26th 1931 in this same city.

He is the son of a paper maker and philanthropist, Edouard and of Lucie Amélie born Bosson. Lighter studies in Geneva and Berlin. It Marie in 1896 with Esther Cuchet. Receipt doctor in 1891, it becomes preserving Botanical garden of Geneva in 1896 before directing it 1906 to 1931. In addition to the enlarging of the Garden, one owes him of many work in vegetable taxonomy as well as the history of sciences. It contributes largely to the adoption of the botanical rules of nomenclatures by its publications in particular its Synoptic Recueil of 1930.

Sources

  • historical Dictionary of Switzerland (in French)
  • Thomas Archibald Sprague (1935), Survey off Nomenclature (1930-1935). Chronica Botanica , I : 34.

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