Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré

{{Short description|French botanist (1789–1854)}} {{Infobox scientist | image = Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date |1789|09|04|df=yes}} | birth_place = Angoulème, France | death_date = {{death date and age |1854|01|16|1789|09|04|df=yes}} | death_place = Paris | fields = Botany | workplaces = | patrons = | education = Cognac, Angoulême | alma_mater = | thesis_title =  | thesis_url =  | thesis_year =  | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = Collection of specimens | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = '''Gaudich.''' | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | parents = J.-J. Gaudichaud and Rose (Mallat) Gaudichaud | father = | mother = | relatives = }} '''Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré''' ({{IPA|fr|ʃaʁl ɡodiʃo bopʁe}}; September 4, 1789 – January 16, 1854) was a French botanist.

==Biography== Gaudichaud was born in Angoulême, to J-J. Gaudichaud and Rose (Mallat) Gaudichaud. He studied pharmacology informally at Cognac and Angoulême, and then under Robiquet in Paris, where he acquired a knowledge of botany from Desfontaines and Louis Richard. In April 1810, he was appointed pharmacist in the military marine, and from July 1811 to the end of 1814, he served in Antwerp.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Gaudichaud-Beaupré, Charles|volume=11|page=531}}</ref> He also studied chemistry and herbology.

His greatest claim to fame was serving as botanist on a circumglobal expedition from 1817 to 1820. He accompanied Freycinet, who made the expedition on the ships ''Uranie'' and ''Physicienne''. The wreck of the ''Uranie'' in the Falkland Islands, at the close of 1819, deprived him of more than half the botanical collections he had made in various parts of the world.<ref name="EB1911"/> He is also known for his collections in Australia.

In 1831, Gaudichaud sailed on ''L'Herminie'' to South America, visiting Chile, Brazil and Peru. In 1836, he undertook a third voyage, circumnavigating the globe on ''La Bonite''.<ref name="EB1911"/>

He died in Paris.

==Legacy== Gaudichaud is commemorated in the scientific names of two species of South American lizards, ''Ecpleopus gaudichaudii'' and ''Garthia gaudichaudii'' (the Chilean marked gecko),<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Gaudichaud, p. 99).</ref> and one species of Brazilian frog, ''Crossodactylus gaudichaudii''.<ref>Duméril A-M-C, Bibron G (1841). ''Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles, Tome huitiėme'' [Volume 8], ''comprenant l'histoire générale des batraciens'' .... Paris: Roret. ii + 792 pp. ("''Cette espèce est une découverte faite au Brésil par M[onsieur]. Gaudichaud, savante botaniste auquel nous la dédions''.", p. 636). (in French).</ref> Two Hawaiian species of flowering plants, in the genus ''Scaevola'' are named after him, ''Scaevola gaudichaudiana'' and ''Scaevola gaudichaudii''.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Scaevola gaudichaudiana'' Cham. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:384204-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=13 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=''Scaevola gaudichaudii'' Hook. & Arn. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:384203-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=13 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Also, a genus of South American plants in the family Malpighiaceae, ''Gaudichaudia'', is named after Gaudichaud.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref>

He wrote various treatises, with memoirs on potato blight, the multiplication of bulbous plants, the increase in diameter of dicotyledonous plants, and other subjects.<ref name="EB1911"/>

==Principal works== *''Flore des îles Malouines'' (''Flora of the Falkland Islands'') *''Mémoire sur les Cycadées'' (''Treatise on the Cycads'') *''Voyage de l'Uranie'' (''Voyage of the Uranus'') *''Lettre sur l'organographie et la physiologie'', addressed to Monsieur de Mirbel, in ''Archives de Botanique'', T. II, 1833 (''Letter on Oceanography and Physiology'') *''Recherches générales sur l'organographie'' (''General Research on Oceanography'') *''Mémoire sur le Cissus hydrophora'' (''Treatise on Cissus hydrophora'') *''Voyage Autour du Monde Executé pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette La Bonite'' (''Voyage of the Bonita'')<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gaudichaud |first=M. Charles |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98627#page/11/mode/1up |title=Voyage autour du monde, entrepris par ordre du roi. Exécuté sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. Botanique. |last2= |first2= |last3= |first3= |last4= |first4= |last5= |first5= |last6= |first6= |last7= |first7= |last8= |first8= |last9= |first9= |date=1826 |publisher=Chez Pillet aîné |volume= |location=Paris |language=French |trans-title=Voyage around the world, undertaken by order of the king. Carried out on the corvettes of H.M. Urania and Physician, during the years 1817, 1818, 1819 and 1820. Botany.}}</ref> and illustrated plates<ref>{{Cite book |last=Freycinet |first=Louis Claude Desaulses de |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/53603#page/5/mode/1up |title=Voyage autour du monde, entrepris par ordre du roi. Exécuté sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820 |last2=Freycinet |first2=Louis Claude Desaulses de |last3=Arago |first3=Jacques |last4=Bevalet |first4=Antoine-Germain |last5=Blanchard |first5=E. |last6=Chazal |first6=Antoine |last7=Clermont-Tonnerre |first7=Aimé-Marie-Gaspard |last8=Corbière |first8=Jacques Joseph |last9=Coutant |first9=L. |date=1826 |publisher=Chez Pillet aîné |volume=[t.4] (1826) [Atlas] |location=Paris}}</ref> *''Notes relatives à l'organographie et à la physiologie des végétaux monocotylés''

==References== {{reflist}}

== External links == * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/15862 Voyage de l'Uranie, Botanique] At: [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ Biodiversity Heritage Library] * [https://botanicalcabinet.com/scientific_notes_1.php Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré | Botanical Cabinet]

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