Georges Le Monnier

Georges Le Monnier (; March 4, 1843 in Bordeaux – June 10, 1931 in Nancy) was a French scientist who spent much of his career in Nancy.

Biography Georges Le Monnier was born in Bordeaux in 1843 and then became a student at the École Normale Supérieure (until 1863), became an associate in physics (1866), Doctor of Science (1873), teacher at the Lycée de Niort (1866), trainer at the École Normale Supérieure (1869), professor of physics at the lycée in Pau (1874), lecturer in botany and zoology at the faculty of sciences in Besançon (1874), lecturer in botany at the faculty of sciences in Nancy (1877), then finally professor (in 1877) and honorary professor (in 1912).

He was Deputy mayor of Nancy from 1892 to 1900 and opened the first high school for young girls in Nancy and one of the first in France.

He was the initiator of the Eastern Serotherapeutic Institute, of which he was president. He was the first holder of the Botany Chair of the Faculty of Sciences of Nancy. Georges Le Monnier dealt closely with social issues and their teachings throughout his career. but then returned it later. He was a member of the Academy of Stanislas.

He was a very close friend of Auguste Daum (French ceramist) and Émile Gallé (artist and designer who worked in glass).

He was Professor of Botany at the University of Nancy.

He is honoured in the naming of Lemonniera by De Wild (type of Fungi) in Ann. Soc. Belge Microscop. 18: 147 in 1894. Also Le-monniera Lecomte 1918 (in Sapotaceae family) in Notul. Syst. (Paris) 3: 337 in 1918 which is now a synonym for Neolemonniera Heine 1960 (Sapotaceae).

Publications Darwin, his life and his work, Georges Le Monnier, Public Library of Nancy, Speech delivered at the formal opening of the Faculties of Nancy on November 28, 1882. Flora of Lorraine, DA. Godron, published by Paul-Henri Fliche and Georges Le Monnier, N. Grosjean, Nancy, third edition, 1883. Georges Le Monnier, "The Evolution of Evolutionism, Acceptance speech", in Memoirs of the Academy of Stanislas - 1907 - 1908, Public session of May 21, 1908, Nancy, vol. 6th series, Volume V, Berger- Levrault et Cie , 1908 Georges Le Monnier, Botany course for the fourth class and agricultural schools, Germer bookstore, Baillères et Cie, 108 boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris, 1881 Philippe Van Tieghem and Georges Le Monnier, Research on mucorinae, Librairie Masson, place of the School of Medicine, Paris, 1873