Pierre-Joseph Amoreux
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Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741, Beaucaire - 1824, Montpellier
) was a French
physician
and naturalist
. He was the librarian at the Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier
, in English Medical college of Montpellier. He was the author of many works on medicine, agriculture
, botany
and natural history
.
The most important are:
Montpellier
-Neighbourhoods:Since 2001, Montpellier has been divided into seven official neighbourhoods, themselves divided into sub-neighbourhoods. Each of them possesses a neighbourhood council....
) was a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
and naturalist
Naturalist
Naturalist may refer to:* Practitioner of natural history* Conservationist* Advocate of naturalism * Naturalist , autobiography-See also:* The American Naturalist, periodical* Naturalism...
. He was the librarian at the Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier
University of Montpellier
The University of Montpellier was a French university in Montpellier in the Languedoc-Roussillon région of the south of France. Its present-day successor universities are the University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier 2 University and Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III.-History:The university...
, in English Medical college of Montpellier. He was the author of many works on medicine, agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
, botany
Botany
Botany, plant science, or plant biology is a branch of biology that involves the scientific study of plant life. Traditionally, botany also included the study of fungi, algae and viruses...
and natural history
Natural history
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
.
The most important are:
- Traité de l'olivierOliveThe olive , Olea europaea), is a species of a small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean Basin as well as northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea.Its fruit, also called the olive, is of major agricultural importance in the...
(Veuve Gontier, Montpellier, 1784) - Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Pierre Richer de Belleval, fondateur du jardin botanique, donné par Henri IV à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier, en 1593, pour servir à l'histoire de cette Faculté et à celle de la botanique (J.-A. Joly, Avignon, 1786).
- Mémoire sur les haies destinées à la clôture des prés, des champs, des vignes et des jeunes bois (Cuchet, Paris, 1787, réédité en 1809)
- Notice des insectes de la France réputés venimeux (rue et hôtel Serpente, Paris, 1789).
- Mémoire sur la nécessité et les moyens d'améliorer l'agriculture dans le district de Montpellier (Imprimerie révolutionnaire de Bonnariq & Avignon, Montpellier, an II, 1794).
- Essai historique et littéraire sur la médecine des Arabes (A. Ricard, Montpellier, 1805).
- Mémoire sur le bornage ou la limitation des possessions rurales (imprimerie de A. Ricard, Montpellier, 1809).
- Dissertation historique et critique sur l'origine du cachou (Renaud, Montpellier, 1812).
- Notice historique et bibliographique sur la vie et les ouvrages de Laurent JoubertLaurent JoubertLaurent Joubert was a French physician. He travelled to Montpellier at the age of 21 to study medicine, and became a student of Guillaume Rondelet, the chancellor of the Medical Faculty at the University of Montpellier. Soon after Rondelet's death in 1556, Joubert succeeded him as chancellor...
, chancelier en l'Université de médecine de Montpellier, au XVIe siècle (imprimerie de Tournel, Montpellier, 1814, réédité en 1971 chez Slatkine, Genève). - Dissertation philologique sur les plantes religieuses (Durville, Montpellier, 1817).
- Revue de l'histoire de la licorne, par un naturaliste de Montpellier (Durville, Montpellier, 1818).
- La Guirlande de Julie, expliquée par de nouvelles annotations sur les madrigaux et sur les fleurs peintes qui la composent (Gabon, Paris, 1824).