Louis Théodore Frederic Colladon

{{Short description|Swiss botanist (1792–1862)}}

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Louis Théodore Frederic Colladon (25 August 1792 – 25 April 1862) was a Swiss physician and botanist known for his investigations of the plant genus Cassia.[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=Collad.&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query IPNI] List of taxa described and co-described by Colladon. He was the son of pharmacist and amateur botanist Jean-Antoine Colladon (1755–1830).

He studied medicine at the University of Montpellier, where one of his instructors was botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. After graduation, he started a medical practice in Paris. As a physician, he distinguished himself in the treatment of cholera patients during the epidemic of 1832.[https://books.google.com/books?id=vs09AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA456 Google Books] Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève, Volume 16

Among his written works was a monograph on Cassia titled "Histoire naturelle et médicale des casses, et particulièrement de la casse et des sénés employés en médecine" (1816) and a tale involving descent in a diving bell that was published in English as "Narrative of a descent in the diving-bell, &c. &c." (Edinburgh : Printed for A. Constable, 1821).[http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AColladon%2C+L.+The%CC%81od.+Fre%CC%81de%CC%81ric&qt=hot_author WorldCat Search] publications In 1830 the plant genus Colladonia was named in his honor by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120656#page/574/mode/1up BHL] Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications

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