Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz (27 January 1731, in

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– 13 January 1807, in

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. Buc'hoz become a doctor of medicine in Nancy in 1763. He was devoted to botany, but was also interested in the treatment of melancholy and recommended music as therapy. He travelled throughout his native

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and published a 13-volume of the province. Teaching botany as well, he was demonstrator at the . Author of many works of botany he also studied animals (in particular

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Partial list of publications

* . * . Lacombe, Paris 1768
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) * , 1770.

1774. * , 1775. * . Felßeker, Nürnberg 177
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* , Paris: chez l'auteur, 1781. * , Paris: chez l'auteur, 1782. * , Paris: chez l'auteur, 1783. * , 1785. * .

References

*Larousse, P. 1865-1876 ''Grand Dict. du XIX. Siècle'' * Rose, H. J. 1850 ''New General Biographical Dictionary''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Buchoz, Pierre Joseph French naturalists 18th-century French botanists French entomologists French ornithologists 1731 births 1807 deaths French lawyers French physicians