Johann Christoph Schleicher (February 26, 1768 - August 27, 1834) was a Swiss botanist, bryologist, mycologist, pteridologist and algologist of German origin. He founded a botanical garden in Bex, and a herbarium trade.[1]

Biography

He was born on February 26, 1770 (according to other sources - in 1768) in the family of Anna Maria Savitsky. He was adopted by Karl Schleicher after the death of his father. In 1797 he married Julie Ricou, daughter of the physician Jean-David Ricou. Schleicher settled in Bévieux sur Bex around 1800, where he worked in a pharmacy. He was also the owner of a company selling plants and herbarium specimens. He created the first botanical garden in the canton of Vaud in the city of Bevieux, and is considered to be the inventor of the commercial catalogs of plants, of which he published a first copy of 76 pages in 1800. It was followed by other editions, in 1807, 1815, and 1821. Schleicher was the first scientist to use mercury chloride to store herbarium specimens.[1][2][3][4]

Johann Christoph died in Bex on August 27, 1834.[1]

Currently, the bulk of Schleicher's herbarium specimens are kept in the Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva and the Lausanne Museum and Botanical Garden (LAU).[1]

Selected works

Schleicher, JC (1800). Catalogus plantarum in Helvetia . 76 p.

The standard author abbreviation Schleich. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

References

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[ru] Шляйхер, Иоганн Кристоф