Nicolas Charles Seringe

Nicolas Charles Seringe (3 December 1776 – 29 December 1858) was a French medical doctor and botanist.

Biography Seringe was born in Longjumeau. He studied medicine in Paris, and subsequently served as a military surgeon. In this role, he was involved in the German campaign under General Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763–1813). Afterwards, he left the army and relocated to Bern, where he developed an interest in botany.

From 1801 to 1820, he taught classes in Bern. He started to edit exsiccatae and exsiccata-like works distributing dried specimens in sets, among others Saules de la Suisse (1805–1814), Collection des familles algues, champignons, hypoxylons, lichens (1809) and Exemplaires desséchés de la révision inédite du genre Salix (1824). Some of these series are mainly issued for educational purposes, for example the series Souvenir de la Suisse ou collection de plantes choisies des Alpes (~ 1825). One of his students was Ludwig Schaerer, who later became a pastor and lichenologist. Seringe followed with teaching similar duties in Geneva (1820–1830).

In 1830 he was named the director of the Jardin de Plantes de Lyon, and from 1834 he taught classes at the University of Lyon.

Among his written efforts were an 1815 monograph on willows native to Switzerland, a treatise on Swiss cereal grains titled "Monographie des céréales de la Suisse" (1818) and a work on cereal grains of Europe called "Descriptions et figures des céréales européennes" (1841).

The genus Seringia is named in his honor. 1842–1858 : Académie de Stanislas 1831–1858 : Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon 1831–1858 : Société d'agriculture de Lyon 1844–1865 : Société d'émulation du Jura (corresponding member) 1822–1858 : Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève 1844–1858 : Société d’horticulture pratique du Rhône (founding member) 1829–1858 : Linnean Society of Lyon 1822–1858 : Linnean Society of Paris (corresponding member)