Louis-Luc Godey

{{Short description|French mycologist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Louis-Luc Godey | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = 1813 | birth_place = France | death_date = 1873 | death_place = France | citizenship = France | fields = Mycology | workplaces = | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | footnotes = | spouse = }}

'''Louis-Luc Godey''' (8 September 1813 in Saint-Lô - 17 February 1873) was a French mycologist known for his detailed illustrations of many European species of mushrooms.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qptLAAAAMAAJ |title=Annuaire du Département de la Manche |date=1874 |publisher=J. Elie |pages=42–45 |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Louis-Luc Godey (1813-1873) |url=https://normannia.info/louis-luc-godey |access-date=28 November 2022 |website=Normannia}}</ref>

He was the first to describe ''Lepiota brebissonii'' (later reclassified as ''Leucocoprinus brebissonii'').''<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Gillet |first=Claude-Casimir |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6434815f |title=Les hyménomycètes, ou Description de tous les champignons (fungi) qui croissent en France, avec l'indication de leurs propriétés utiles ou vénéneuses / par C.-C. Gillet... |date=1874 |pages=64 |language=FR |via=gallica.bnf.fr}}</ref>''

== Career == Godey was originally an art teacher. He later trained as a doctor and took up mycology as a hobby while practicing in Normandy, working with the naturalist Louis Alphonse de Brébisson.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Andrews |first=Anne |date=2002-04-01 |title=The paintings of Louis-Luc Godey |journal=Field Mycology |language=en |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=71 |doi=10.1016/S1468-1641(10)60150-8 |issn=1468-1641|doi-access=free }}</ref> A collection of his watercolours of fungi are held at the science library of the University of Caen Normandy. The botanist Claude Casimir Gillet published ''Les'' ''Hyménomycètes de France'' in 1874, the year after Godey's death, using paintings of Godey's that he had gained access to. Mycologist Jean-Philippine Rioult at the University of Caen discovered that in some cases Gillet had copied, traced, and in some cases published Godey's work as his own, only acknowledging Godey as having collected the described new species.<ref name=":0" />

== Works ==

* {{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yqsUzQEACAAJ |title=Quelques observations sur les lichens dans la Basse-Normandie}} * {{Cite book |title=Quelques jalons pour un flore mycologique normande |year=1871}} * ''[https://www.worldcat.org/title/29897252 Algues des environs de Falaise.]''1835. with Brébisson

== Legacy == The species ''Inocybe godeyi'' was named in his honour.<ref>{{cite book |author=Rea, Carleton |title=British Basidiomycetaceae: a Handbook to the Larger British Fungi |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1922 |page=198 |author-link=Carleton Rea}}</ref>

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