Louis Secretan (1758 - 1839)
Image of
Amanita virosa
from
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
(1857 - 1879)
Mycographia, seu Icones fungorum
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Biography
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Species
Biography
born in Switzerland, studies law
1780 graduates from law school
1781 hired as a lawyer for the patent office in Bern
elected to Switzerland's congress
1798 - 1799 president of the general assembly
member of the general assembly and of the assembly of Kanton Waadt
1831 chief justice of the court of appeals
Image of
Marasmiellus albuscortis
from
Jean Louis Émile Boudier
(1904 - 1909)
Icones mycologicae ou iconographie des champignons de France, principalement Discomycètes
Secretan named some of our most interesting
mushrooms
. See the entry on
Destroying Angels
for an update on his most famous one.
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Sources
Heinrich Dörfelt
& Heike Heklau (1998)
Die Geschichte der Mykologie
(Die Geschichte der Mykologie)
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Selected Publications
Louis Secretan (1833)
Mycographie Suisse, ou description des champignons qui croissant en Suisse, particulièrement dans le canton de Vaud, aux environs de Lausanne
(Swiss Mycography, or description of the mushrooms that grow in Switzerland, particularly in the canton of Vaud, near Lausanne) 3 vol.
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Species
Agaricus arvensis
Ja.C. Schaeffer
:
Secretan
Amanita inaurata
Secretan
Amanita pantherina var. pantherina
(
De Candolle
:
Fries
)
Secretan
Amanita porphyria
(
Schweinitz
&
Albertini
:
Fries
)
Secretan
Amanita virosa
Secretan
Cystoderma cinnabarinum
(
Albertini
&
Schweinitz
:
Secretan
) Fayod
Marasmiellus albuscortis
(
Secretan
)
Singer
Russula densifolia
(
Secretan
)
C. C. Gillet
Russula rosacea
(
Persoon
:
Secretan
)
Fries
Russula xerampelina
(
Ja.C. Schaeffer
:
Secretan
)
Fries
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Secretan named some of our most interesting mushrooms. See the entry on Destroying Angels for an update on his most famous one.
