Jean Jules Amann (8 March 1859, Lausanne – 1 February 1939, Lausanne) was a Swiss

pharmacist A pharmacist, also known as a chemist (Commonwealth English) or a druggist (North American and, archaically, Commonwealth English), is a healthcare professional who prepares, controls and distributes medicines and provides advice and instructi ...

and

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

. He was a leading expert on

mosses Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) ''sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and horn ...

native to Switzerland.Ammann [Amann], Jules
at Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz

Biography

He studied

chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

at the University of Lausanne and in 1883 earned his pharmacy diploma in Zürich. He then worked as a pharmacist in

Rheinfelden Rheinfelden may refer to: Places * Rheinfelden (Baden), a town in the county of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Rheinfelden (Aargau), a town in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland * Rheinfelden District, a district in the Swiss canton of Aa ...

and Zürich, and in 1886 he purchased the ''Englische Apotheke'' in Davos. In 1893 he returned to Lausanne, where he later taught classes in

microscopy Microscopy is the technical field of using microscopes to view objects and areas of objects that cannot be seen with the naked eye (objects that are not within the resolution range of the normal eye). There are three well-known branches of mi ...

at the pharmacy school associated with the university. In 1901 he established his own research laboratory.

Published works

* ''Étude de la flore bryologique du Valais'', 1899 – Study on the

bryology Bryology (from Greek , a moss, a liverwort) is the branch of botany concerned with the scientific study of bryophytes (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts). Bryologists are people who have an active interest in observing, recording, classifying o ...

Valais Valais ( , , ; frp, Valês; german: Wallis ), more formally the Canton of Valais,; german: Kanton Wallis; in other official Swiss languages outside Valais: it, (Canton) Vallese ; rm, (Chantun) Vallais. is one of the 26 cantons forming the S ...

. * ''Flore des mousses de la Suisse'', 1912 (with Charles Meylan and Paul Frédéric Culmann) – Mosses of Switzerland. * ''Bryogéographie de la Suisse'', 1928 – Bryogeography of Switzerland. * ''Etude des Muscinées du Massif de Naye''. 1935 – Study on the mosses of Massif de Naye.OCLC Classify
(published works)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Amann, Jules 1859 births 1939 deaths Scientists from Lausanne University of Lausanne alumni Academic staff of the University of Lausanne Bryologists Swiss pharmacists 19th-century Swiss botanists 20th-century Swiss botanists