Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée (1789 - 1874)
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Biography
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Biography
Trained as an apothecary, Fée's first professional situation was as a medical orderly in Napoleon's army in Spain. Talk about a baptism by fire. After the end of the war, he left the army and set up a practice as an apothecary in Paris, where he founded the pharmaceutical association of that city.
1825 appointed instructor at the teaching hospital in Lille
1832 appointed instructor at the teaching hospital in Strassburg
1833 promoted to M.D. and professor of botany
After the end of the Franco-Prussian war, during which the Prussians took Strassburg, he went back to Paris
1874 shortly before his death, he was elected president of the Société Botanique de France
Fée was a general cryptogamist, doing work on ferns, lichens and fungi. Much of his work was on tropical material and, as you can tell from the titles, had a medicinal bent. I'm not sure how he got his samples; maybe he just worked on "contaminants" on routine medicinal imports. The Dictionary of the Fungi says that his main herbarium is in Buenos Aires but that contradicts my other sources, and I'm not sure how it would get there, anyway...
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Sources
Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
(Die Geschichte der Mykologie)
Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth, D. L. Hawksworth & P. W. James (1971) Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi
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Selected Publications
Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée (1824 - 1825) Essai sur les Cryptogames de écorces exotiques officinales (Essay on the Cryptogams that grow on Exotic Medicinal Barks) 7 vol.
Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée (1837) Essai sur les Cryptogames de écorces exotiques officinales, II supplément et révision (Essay on the Cryptogams that grow on Exotic Medicinal Barks, Part II: Supplement and Revision)
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