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.[http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D43149.php Ammann [Amann], Jules] at Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz

Biography

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,[http://www.herbarien.uzh.ch/static/database/sammlerdetails_en.php?id=7 Jean Jules Amann (8.3.1859 - 1.2.1939)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201073828/http://www.herbarien.uzh.ch/static/database/sammlerdetails_en.php?id=7 |date=2016-02-01 }} ETH Zurich; Zürich Herbaria where he later taught classes in microscopy at the pharmacy school associated with the university. In 1901 he established his own research laboratory.

Published works

  • 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.[http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?search-author-txt=%22Amann%2C+Jules%22 OCLC Classify] (published works)

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