About Jacques Daléchamps
Lived 1513 – 1588 (aged 74–75). Jacques Daléchamps was a French botanist, physician, translator and philologist.
Jacques Daléchamps (1513 in Caen – 1588) was a French botanist and physician.
He was the pupil of Guillaume Rondelet and became physician of the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon.
In 1552, he published Raymond Chalin de Vinario's “treatise on the plague”.
Works Histoire generale des plantes Bd.1-2 . Lyon 1615 Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
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French botanist (1513-1588)
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Jacques Daléchamps was born in 1513 in Caen.
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Jacques Daléchamps died on 1 May 1588 in Lyon.
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Jacques Daléchamps was a botanist, physician, translator and philologist.
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Jacques Daléchamps was French.
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