Jean Baptiste Saint-Lager

Jean Baptiste Saint-Lager, born in 1825 in Lyon and died in 1912, was a French botanist and physician. In June 1881, he was made a member of the Academy of Sciences, Belles-Lettres and Arts of Lyon (Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon).

Background Little is known of Saint-Lager's early life. Jean Baptiste Saint-Lager began practising medicine in Lyon, after successfully concluding his studies at the Lyon School of Medicine in 1847. In 1850 he worked as a doctor of medicine at the University of Paris, where he remained in this profession for twelve years.

In Saint-Lager's study of herbaria, he dealt primarily with the process of nomenclature (phytonymy) and of plant taxonomy.

Jean Baptiste Saint-Lager is recognized as being one of the founders of the Lyon Botanical Society (Société botanique de Lyon) and served as librarian for that society, as well as for the Linnean Society of Lyon until 1911.

Selected published works

(originally published in 1881)

(originally published over the course of 10 years, 1873–1883 - )