Jules Amann
Jean Jules Amann (8 March 1859, Lausanne – 1 February 1939, Lausanne) was a Swiss pharmacist and botanist. He was a leading expert on mosses native to Switzerland.[1]
Biography
[edit]He studied chemistry at the University of Lausanne and in 1883 earned his pharmacy diploma in Zürich. He then worked as a pharmacist in Rheinfelden and Zürich, and in 1886 he purchased the Englische Apotheke in Davos. In 1893 he returned to Lausanne,[2] where he later taught classes in microscopy at the pharmacy school associated with the university. In 1901 he established his own research laboratory.[1] He is known for creating an index to measure hygrothermy, a measurement of climatic variably for Atlantic oceanic climates that was used to consider plant distribution.[3]
Published works
[edit]- Étude de la flore bryologique du Valais, 1899 – Study on the bryology of Valais.
- Flore des mousses de la Suisse, 1912 (with Charles Meylan and Paul Frédéric Culmann) – Mosses of Switzerland.
- Bryogéographie de la Suisse, 1928 – Bryogeography of Switzerland.
- Etude des Muscinées du Massif de Naye. 1935 – Study on the mosses of Massif de Naye.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Ammann [Amann], Jules at Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz
- ↑ Jean Jules Amann (8.3.1859 - 1.2.1939) Archived 2016-02-01 at the Wayback Machine ETH Zurich; Zürich Herbaria
- ↑ Amann, Jules (1929). "L'hygrothermie du climat, facteur déterminant la répartition des espèces atlantiques" (PDF). Bulletin de la Murithienne. 47: 39–46. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 August 2017 – via ReroDoc.
- ↑ OCLC Classify (published works)
- ↑ International Plant Names Index. J.J.Amann.
