{{short description|French botanist (1897–1969)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Louis Emberger | image = | caption = | birth_date = 23 January 1897 | birth_place = Thann, Haut-Rhin, France | death_date = {{death date and age |1969|11|30|1897|1|23|df=y}} | death_place = Saint-Sulpice, Savoie, France | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Botany | workplaces = University of Montpellier | alma_mater = University of Lyon | doctoral_advisor = Marie Antoine Alexandre Guilliermond | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = Loutfy Boulos | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = Emb. | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | footnotes = | spouse = }}

'''Marie Louis Emberger''' (23 January 1897 – 30 November 1969) was a French botanist and phytogeographer. He worked at the University of Montpellier.{{sfn|HUH|2015}}

== Life == Emberger was born at Thann, in Haut-Rhin, France in 1897,{{sfn|Thann|2016}} which was then part of German occupied Alsace. He developed an interest in Natural History, exploring the Rhine plain of Alsace, and the nearby Vosges mountains. At the age of 17, to avoid conscription into the German army, he escaped to Lyon, in France.{{sfn|Mangenot|1972}} There he began studies in biologie at the University of Lyon, and obtained a degree in ''sciences naturelles'' in 1918. He obtained his doctorate under Professor Marie Antoine Alexandre Guilliermond, then head of the Department of Agricultural Botany, at Lyon. Following his studies, his first position was as an organic chemistry technician in the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy. There he produced his first publication in 1919 in the ''Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France'', an account of his exploration at Grande Chartreuse. He began working as a pharmacist in 1920 and within a year had had six papers presented at the ''Académie des Sciences'' by Gaston Bonnier. In 1921 he was appointed as a lecturer in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Montpellier. Within five years he had been appointed head of the botany department at the ''Institut scientifique de Rabat'' in Morocco (1926–1936). Returning to France he was, for a short time, professor at the Faculty of Science at Clermont-Ferrand, before once more taking a position in Montpellier, succeeding his step-father, Charles Flahault as head of the botany department (Directeur de l'Institut botanique de l'Université et du Centre d'Etudes phytosocio-logiques de Montpellier). There he worked closely with Josias Braun-Blanquet, also a student of Flahault. He remained in that position until his death at St Sulpice in Savoie in 1969.{{sfn|Thann|2016}}{{sfn|Mangenot|1972}}

== Work == Emberger's scientific contributions cover four main areas of research, cytology, biogeography, comparative morphology and phylogeny, and biosystematics. His cytological work focussed on the ferns, horsetails, and the lycopods. His biogeographical work concentrated on the vegetation of the Mediterranean basin and in particular the western High Atlas region of Morocco. He published work on the distribution and classification of Moroccan flora, in particular, halfah grass (''Stipa tenacissima''). His Moroccan work also included studies on the altitudinal zonation of the mountain regions there and the phytogeography of the desert climate, in particular the argan tree (''Argania spinosa''). Other work included studies of association in equatorial forests, which led to a biogeographical classification of climate, in which he drew comparisons between Australia and homologous zones of the Mediterranean.{{sfn|Emberger|1971}} In biosystematics he developed a classification scheme for vascular plants.{{sfn|Dahlgren|Clifford|1982|loc=pp.&nbsp;9–10}}{{sfn|Wit|1994|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=W7-Y466TiiwC&pg=PA201 pp.&nbsp;201–206]}}{{sfn|Chaudefaud|Emberger|1960}}

== Selected publications == * {{cite book|last1=Braun-Blanquet|first1=Josias|last2=Emberger|first2=Louis|last3=Molinier|first3=René|author-link1=Josias Braun-Blanquet|author-link2=Louis Emberger|title=Instructions pour l'établissement de la carte des groupements végétaux|date=1947|publisher=Causse, Graille, Castelnau|location=Montpellier|language=fr}} * {{cite book|last1=Emberger|first1=Marie Louis|last2=Maire|first2=René-Charles-Joseph-Ernest|author-link1=Louis Emberger|author-link2=René Maire|title=Plantae maroccanae novae vel minus cognitae|date=1929|publisher=Imprimerie de Lunéville|location=Rabat|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/76838#/summary|language=la}} * {{cite book|last1=Emberger|first1=Louis|last2=Font-Quer|first2=Pío|last3=Maire|first3=René-Charles-Joseph-Ernest|title=La végétation de l'Atlas rifain occidental|date=1928|publisher=Société de biogéographie|location=Paris|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/76842#/summary|language=fr}} * {{cite book|last1=Chaudefaud|first1=Marius|last2=Emberger|author-link2=Louis Emberger|first2=Louis|title=Traité de Botanique systématique 2 vols.|date=1960|publisher=Masson|location=Paris|language=fr}}

see also ''Taxon. Lit., ed. 2 (TL2)'',{{sfn|Stafleu|Cowan|1976}}

== Legacy == Louis Embeerger is the authority for 168 taxa, such as ''Agropyron pseudofestucoides'' <small>Emb.</small>{{sfn|Tropicos|2015|loc=[http://www.tropicos.org/Person/4464?tab=names Emberger, Louis]}}

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== References == {{Reflist|20em}}

== Bibliography == {{refbegin}} * {{cite book|last1=Stafleu|first1=Frans A.|last2=Cowan|first2=Richard S.|title=Taxonomic literature: a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types|date=1976|publisher=Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema|location=Utrecht|edition=2nd|chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33260317#page/339/mode/1up|volume=1. A–G |pages=329–332|chapter=Emberger, Louis|isbn=978-3-904144-17-9 |access-date=29 December 2015}} * {{cite book|last1=Emberger|first1=L|title=Travaux de botanique et d'écologie: choisis et présentés par les soins d'un groupe de ses amis et élèves à l'occasion de son jubilé scientifique|date=1971|publisher=Masson|location=Paris|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0WU_AAAAYAAJ|access-date=1 January 2016}} * {{cite book|last1=Jaeger|first1=Paul|last2=Ochsenbein|first2=Gonthier|editor1-last=Baechler|editor1-first=Charles|editor2-last=Kintz|editor2-first=Jean-Pierre|title=Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne |volume=9|date=1982–2003|publisher=Fédération des sociétés d'histoire et d'archéologie d'Alsace|page=795|chapter-url=http://www.alsace-histoire.org/fr/dictionnaire-de-biographie/|access-date=1 January 2016|chapter=Emberger, Louis Marie}} * {{cite book|last1=Dahlgren|first1=Rolf|last2=Clifford|first2=H. T.| author-link1=Rolf Dahlgren|title=The monocotyledons: A comparative study | url={{Google books|coXwAAAAMAAJ|plainurl=yes}}|year=1982 |location=London and New York| publisher=Academic Press |isbn=9780122006807}} * {{cite book|last1=Wit|first1=Hendrik C. D. de|title=Histoire du developpement de la biologie|date=1994|orig-year=1982|publisher=Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes|location=Lausanne|isbn=9782880742645|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W7-Y466TiiwC|access-date=1 January 2016|others=translated by A. Baudiere. Originally published by Pudoc, Wagengigen, Netherlands as ''Ontwikkelingsgeschiedenis''}} * {{cite journal|last1=Mangenot|first1=G.|title=Louis Emberger (1897–1969)|journal=Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France|date=1972|volume=119|issue=Sup. 3|pages=7–14|doi=10.1080/00378941.1972.10839127|doi-access=free|bibcode=1972BSBF..119S...7M }} * {{cite journal|last1=Marres|first1=Paul|title=Louis Emberger, 1897-1969|journal=Annales de Géographie|date=1972|volume=81|issue=448|pages=748–751|doi=10.1080/00378941.1972.10839127 |bibcode=1972BSBF..119S...7M |url=http://www.persee.fr/doc/geo_0003-4010_1972_num_81_448_18837}} * {{cite journal|last1=Buvat|first1=Roger|title=Notice nécrologique sur M. Louis Emberger, Correspondant de la section de Botanique|journal=Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris|date=15 June 1970|volume=270|pages=132–137|url=http://www.academie-sciences.fr/pdf/eloges/emberger_cr1970.pdf}} * {{cite web|title=Emberger, Marie Louis|url=http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?id=40998|website=Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries: Index of Botanists|access-date=29 December 2015|date=2015|ref={{harvid|HUH|2015}}}} * {{cite web|title=Tropicos|url=http://www.tropicos.org/Home.aspx|publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden|access-date=30 December 2015|date=2015|ref={{harvid|Tropicos|2015}}}} * {{cite web|title=Emberger, Louis|url=http://www.ville-thann.fr/Culture-Tourisme-Patrimoine/Histoire/Personnalites-illustres/EMBERGER-Louis/%28language%29/fre-FR|website=Ville de Thann: Personnalités illustres|access-date=1 January 2016|language=fr|ref={{harvid|Thann|2016}}|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202055208/http://www.ville-thann.fr/Culture-Tourisme-Patrimoine/Histoire/Personnalites-illustres/EMBERGER-Louis/%28language%29/fre-FR|archive-date=2 February 2017|url-status=dead}}

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