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(Marie) Louis Emberger (23 January 1897 – 30 November 1969) was a French botanist and phytogeographer, at the University of Montpellier.

Life

Emberger was born at Thann, in Haut-Rhin, France in 1897, which was then part of German occupied Alsace. He developed an interest in Natural History, exploring the Rhine plain of Alsace, and the nearby Vosges mountains. At the age of 17, to avoid conscription into the German army, he escaped to Lyons, in France. There he began studies in biologie at the University of Lyons, and obtained a degree in sciences naturelles in 1918. He obtained his doctorate under Professor Marie Antoine Alexandre Guilliermond, then head of the Department of Agricultural Botany, at Lyons. Following his studies, his first position was as an organic chemistry technician in the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy. There he produced his first publication in 1919 in the Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France, an account of his exploration at Grande Chartreuse. He began working as a pharmacist in 1920 and within a year had had six papers presented at the Académie des Sciences by Gaston Bonnier. In 1921 he was appointed as a lecturer in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Montpellier. Within five years he had been appointed head of the botany department at the Institut scientifique de Rabat in Morocco (1926–1936). Returning to France he was, for a short time, professor at the Faculty of Science at Clermont-Ferrand, before once more taking a position in Montpellier, succeeding his step-father, Charles Flahault as head of the botany department (Directeur de l'Institut botanique de l'Université et du Centre d'Etudes phytosocio-logiques de Montpellier). There he worked closely with Josias Braun-Blanquet, also a student of Flahault. He remained in that position until his death at St Sulpice in Savoie in 1969.

Work

Emberger's scientific contributions cover four main areas of research, cytology, biogeography, comparative morphology and phylogeny, and biosystematics. His cytological work focussed on the ferns, horsetails, and the lycopods. His biogeographical work concentrated on the vegetation of the Mediterranean basin and in particular the western High Atlas region of Morocco. He published work on the distribution and classification of Moroccan flora, in particular, halfah grass (Stipa tenacissima). His Moroccan work also included studies on the altitudinal zonation of the mountain regions there and the phytogeography of the desert climate, in particular the argan tree (Argania spinosa). Other work included studies of association in equatorial forests, which led to a biogeographical classification of climate, in which he drew comparisons between Australia and homologous zones of the Mediterranean. In biosystematics he developed a classification scheme for vascular plants.

Selected publications

• Braun-Blanquet, Josias; Emberger, Louis; Molinier, René (1947). Instructions pour l'établissement de la carte des groupements végétaux (in French). Montpellier: Causse, Graille, Castelnau.
• Emberger, Marie Louis; Maire, René-Charles-Joseph-Ernest (1929). Plantae maroccanae novae vel minus cognitae (in Latin). Rabat: Imprimerie de Lunéville.
• Emberger, Louis; Font-Quer, Pío; Maire, René-Charles-Joseph-Ernest (1928). La végétation de l'Atlas rifain occidental (in French). Paris: Société de biogéographie.
• Chaudefaud, Marius; Emberger, Louis (1960). Traité de Botanique systématique 2 vols (in French). Paris: Masson.

see also Taxon. Lit., ed. 2 (TL2),

Legacy

Louis Embeerger is the authority for 168 taxa, such as Agropyron pseudofestucoides Emb.

References

1. HUH 2015.
2. ^ Thann 2016.
3. ^ Mangenot 1972.
4. Emberger 1971.
5. Dahlgren & Clifford 1982, pp. 9–10.
6. Wit 1994, pp. 201–206.
7. Chaudefaud & Emberger 1960.
8. Stafleu & Cowan 1976.
9. Tropicos 2015, Emberger, Louis.
10. International Plant Names Index.  Emb.

Bibliography

• Stafleu, Frans A.; Cowan, Richard S. (1976). "Emberger, Louis". Taxonomic literature: a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Vol. 1. A–G (2nd ed.). Utrecht: Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema. pp. 329–332. ISBN 978-3-904144-17-9. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
• Emberger, L (1971). Travaux de botanique et d'écologie: choisis et présentés par les soins d'un groupe de ses amis et élèves à l'occasion de son jubilé scientifique. Paris: Masson. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
• Jaeger, Paul; Ochsenbein, Gonthier (1982–2003). "Emberger, Louis Marie". In Baechler, Charles; Kintz, Jean-Pierre (eds.). Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne. Vol. 9. Fédération des sociétés d'histoire et d'archéologie d'Alsace. p. 795. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
• Dahlgren, Rolf; Clifford, H. T. (1982). The monocotyledons: A comparative study. London and New York: Academic Press. ISBN 9780122006807.
• Wit, Hendrik C. D. de (1994) . Histoire du developpement de la biologie. translated by A. Baudiere. Originally published by Pudoc, Wagengigen, Netherlands as Ontwikkelingsgeschiedenis. Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes. ISBN 9782880742645. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
• Mangenot, G. (1972). "Louis Emberger (1897–1969)". Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France. 119 (Sup. 3): 7–14. Bibcode:1972BSBF..119S...7M. doi:10.1080/00378941.1972.10839127.
• Marres, Paul (1972). "Louis Emberger, 1897-1969". Annales de Géographie. 81 (448): 748–751. Bibcode:1972BSBF..119S...7M. doi:10.1080/00378941.1972.10839127.
• Buvat, Roger (15 June 1970). "Notice nécrologique sur M. Louis Emberger, Correspondant de la section de Botanique" (PDF). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris. 270: 132–137.
• "Emberger, Marie Louis". Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries: Index of Botanists. 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
• "Tropicos". Missouri Botanical Garden. 2015. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
• "Emberger, Louis". Ville de Thann: Personnalités illustres (in French). Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2016.

v t e List of systems of plant taxonomy
This is a selected list of the more influential systems. There are many other systems, for instance a review of earlier systems, published by Lindley in his 1853 edition, and Dahlgren (1982). Examples include the works of Scopoli, Ventenat, Batsch and Grisebach.
Pre-Linnaean John Ray system (1686–1704) A discourse on the seeds of plants Methodus plantarum nova De Variis Plantarum Methodis Dissertatio Brevis Methodus plantarum emendata et aucta
Pre-Darwinian Linnaean system (1735–51) Systema Naturae Species Plantarum Genera Plantarum Philosophia Botanica Adanson system (1763) Familles naturelles des plantes De Jussieu system (1789) Genera Plantarum, secundum ordines naturales disposita juxta methodum in Horto Regio Parisiensi exaratam De Candolle system (1819–24) Théorie élémentaire de la botanique, ou exposition des principes de la classification naturelle et de l'art de décrire et d'etudier les végétaux Prodromus systemati naturalis regni vegetabilis sive enumeratio contracta ordinum, generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta Berchtold and Presl system (1820–1823) O Prirozenosti Rostlin Agardh system (1825) Classes Plantarum Gray system (1821) The Natural Arrangement of British Plants Perleb system (1826) Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte des Pflanzenreichs Dumortier system (1829) Analyse des familles des plantes Lindley system (1830–45) An Introduction to the Natural System of Botany The Vegetable Kingdom Don system (1834) General History of Dichlamydious Plants. Bentham & Hooker system (1862–83) Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita. Baillon system (1867–94) Histoire des plantes
Post-Darwinian (Phyletic) Nineteenth century Eichler system (1875–1886) Blüthendiagramme: construirt und erläutert Syllabus der Vorlesungen über Phanerogamenkunde Engler system (1886–1924) Führer durch den Königlich botanischen Garten der Universität zu Breslau Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien Das Pflanzenreich van Tieghem system (1891) Traité de botanique Twentieth century Dalla Torre & Harms system (1900–07) Genera Siphonogamarum, ad systema Englerianum conscripta Warming system (1912) Haandbog i den systematiske botanik Hallier system (1912) L'origine et le système phylétique des angiospermes Bessey system (1915) The phylogenetic taxonomy of flowering plants Wettstein system (1901–35) Handbuch der systematischen Botanik Lotsy system (1907–11) Vorträge über botanische Stammesgeschichte, gehalten an der Reichsuniversität zu Leiden. Ein Lehrbuch der Pflanzensystematik. Hutchinson system (1926–73) The families of flowering plants, arranged according to a new system based on their probable phylogeny Calestani system (1933) Le origini e la classificazione delle Angiosperme Kimura system (1956) Système et phylogénie des monocotyledones Emberger system (1960) Traité de Botanique systématique Melchior system (1964) Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien Takhtajan system (1966–97) A system and phylogeny of the flowering plants Flowering plants: origin and dispersal Diversity and classification of flowering plants Cronquist system (1968–81) The evolution and classification of flowering plants An integrated system of classification of flowering plants Goldberg system (1986–89 Classification, Evolution and Phylogeny of the Families of Dicotyledons Dahlgren system (1975–85) The families of the monocotyledons: structure, evolution, and taxonomy Thorne system (1968–2000) An updated phylogenetic classification of the flowering plants Kubitzki system (1990–) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants Reveal system (1997) Reveal System of Angiosperm Classification
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group System (1998–) An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants (APG I) An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III Chase & Reveal System (2009) An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
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• 20th-century French botanists
• 1897 births
• 1969 deaths
• Academic staff of the University of Montpellier
• Phytogeographers