Dominique Villars
French botanist and lichenologist
About Dominique Villars
Lived 1745 – 1814 (aged 68). Dominique Villars was a French botanist, university teacher, lichenologist and physician.
Dominique Villars or Villar (born 14 November 1745 in Le Villard, part of the commune of Le Noyer, Hautes-Alpes, and died on 26 June 1814 in Strasbourg) was an 18th-century French botanist.
His main work is Histoire des plantes du Dauphiné published between 1786 and 1789, in which about 2,700 species (particularly alpine plants) are described, after over twenty years of observation in the Dauphiné region of southeastern France. His herbarium and botanical manuscripts are preserved at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Grenoble.
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Who was Dominique Villars?
French botanist and lichenologist (1745-1814)
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Dominique Villars was born on 14 November 1745 in Le Noyer.
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Dominique Villars died on 26 June 1814 in Strasbourg.
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Dominique Villars was a botanist, university teacher, lichenologist and physician.
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Dominique Villars was French.
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