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Joseph Arnaud Charles Gaillardot (20 September 1814, in
Lunéville Lunéville ( ; German : ''Lünstadt'' ; Lorrain: ''Leneinvile'') is a commune in the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It is a subprefecture of the department and lies on the river Meurthe at its confluence with the Ve ...
– August 1883, in
Bhamdoun Bhamdoun (), is a town in Lebanon from Beirut on the main road that leads to Damascus and in the suburbs of the main tourist city of Aley, lying at an altitude of above the Lamartine valley. Geography Two separate villages compose the town, ' ...
) was a French physician and naturalist. In 1837 he was named professor of natural history at the medical school in
Cairo Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, L ...
, and later on in his career, spent more than twenty years as a physician at a military hospital in
Sidon Sidon ( ) or better known as Saida ( ; ) is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast in the South Governorate, Lebanon, South Governorate, of which it is the capital. Tyre, Lebanon, Tyre, t ...
. In 1863 he became a health specialist in
Alexandria Alexandria ( ; ) is the List of cities and towns in Egypt#Largest cities, second largest city in Egypt and the List of coastal settlements of the Mediterranean Sea, largest city on the Mediterranean coast. It lies at the western edge of the Nile ...
, then in 1875 was appointed director of the Cairo medical school.Gaillardot, Joseph Arnaud Charles
Sociétés savantes de FranceGaillardot, (Joseph-Arnaud) Charles (1814-1883)
JSTOR Global Plants In addition to his medical duties, he conducted botanical, zoological, geological and archaeological research in Egypt and the Middle East. The snail genus '' Gaillardotia'' ( Bourguignat, 1877; family
Neritidae Neritidae, common name the nerites, is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic Family (biology), family of small to medium-sized saltwater and freshwater snails which have a gill and a distinctive Operculum (gastropod), operculum. MolluscaBase eds. (202 ...
) honors his name, as do species with epithet of ''gaillardotii'',Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. G
/ref> an example being ''Echinops gaillardotii'' (Gaillardot's globe-thistle). His Herbier de Syrie became part of the "
Herbarium Haussknecht A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...
", now located at the
University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The university was established in 1558 and is cou ...
. In 1854 he became a member of
Société botanique de France The Société botanique de France (SBF) is a French learned society founded on 23 April 1854. At its inaugural meeting it stated its purpose as "to contribute to the progress of botany and related sciences and to facilitate, by all means at its di ...
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gaillardot, Charles 1814 births 1883 deaths People from Lunéville French naturalists 19th-century French botanists