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Pierre Joseph Amoreux
1741–1824
A French physician and naturalist of the Enlightenment era, he wrote widely on botany, agriculture, medicine, and natural history. His work also helped preserve the scientific memory of Montpellier, especially its early botanical tradition.
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Revue de l'histoire de la Licorne, par un naturaliste de Montpellier
by Pierre Joseph Amoreux
About the author
Born in Beaucaire in 1741 and later active in Montpellier, Pierre-Joseph Amoreux was a French medical doctor and naturalist. He was the son of Guillaume Amoreux, a physician and inventor of surgical devices, and he served as librarian at the Faculté de Médecine de Montpellier.
Amoreux wrote on a remarkably wide range of subjects, including medicine, agriculture, botany, and natural history. Among the works most often highlighted are Traité de l'olivier and his study of Pierre Richer de Belleval, the founder of Montpellier's botanical garden, which reflects his lasting interest in the history of science as well as in plants themselves.
He died in Montpellier in 1824. Although he is not as widely known today as some of his contemporaries, he stands out as one of those learned figures whose books connected practical observation, scholarship, and the natural sciences.