Nicolas Charles Seringe

Nicolas Charles Seringe is a Botaniste French, born the December 3rd 1776 with Longjumeau and dead the December 29th 1858 with Lyon.

It makes its studies of Médecine to Paris but the requisition of 1796 prevents it from passing its title of doctor. It is incorporated, as military surgeon, in the republican army.

It makes the countryside of Germany under the orders of the general Moreau (1763 - 1813). At the end of the war, which it finishes with the rank of army surgeon, it leaves the army and is withdrawn with Bern.

It specializes then in Botanique and starts to teach it in Bern. Member of several learned societies, he becomes director, in 1830, of the Botanical garden of Lyon and in sign, starting from 1834, with the Faculty of Science of this city.

He takes an active part in the promotion of the exposures of Agriculture and Horticulture. He is made knight of the Légion of honor in 1855.

He dies in an extreme poverty.

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