Matthieu Bonafous
{{short description|French botanist (1793-1852)}}
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| birth_date = March 7, 1793
| birth_place = Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, France
| death_date = March 23, 1852
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Matthieu Bonafous (7 March 1793 – 22 March 1852) was a French botanist born in Lyon.{{cite book |author=Cap, Paul-Antoine |year=1857 |title=Etude biographique pour servir à l'histoire des sciences |publisher=Masson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HmBDAAAAYAAJ |pages=361–406}} (in French)
Early life
Matthieu Bonafous was born on March 7, 1793, in Lyon, France.[http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/LotDetailsPrintable.aspx?intObjectID=1731316 Christie's: MATHIEU BONAFOUS (1793–1852)]
Career
Bonafous wrote {{lang|fr|Histoire Naturelle, Agricole et Économique du Mäis}}, a monograph about maize, in 1836.{{citation |url=http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=5615 |title=Histoire naturelle, agricole et économique du maïs |author=Matthieu Bonafous |year=1836 |publisher=Madame Huzard/Biblioteca Digital, Real Jardín Botánico CSIC}} In it, he showed that corn was able to adapt to hostile weather conditions.Betty Harper Fussell, The Story of Corn, Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1992, p. 92 [https://books.google.com/books?id=iAsQ0Pn1_0MC&dq=Matthieu+Bonnafous+botanist&pg=PA92] For example, it could grow in sand (as in New Jersey), in humid climate (like Colombia) or in cold weather (like the Apennine Mountains).
He also wrote about mulberry trees and their use for raising silkworms in {{lang|fr|De la culture des Mûriers}} (1822) and {{lang|fr|Traité de l'éducation des Vers à Soie et de la culture du Mûrier}} (1840).{{cite book |author1=Stafleu, F.A. |author2=Cowan, R.S. |year=1976–1988 |title=Taxonomic literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Second Edition |publisher=Bohn, Scheltema and Holkema; Available online through Smithsonian Institution Libraries |location=Utrecht |url=http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/tl-2/browse.cfm?vol=9#page/314}}
The plant Bonafousia was named after him.CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology, CRC Press, 1999, Volume 1, p. 324 [https://books.google.com/books?id=esMPU5DHEGgC&dq=Matthieu+Bonnafous+botanist&pg=PA324]
{{botanist|Bonaf.}}
Death
Other works
- {{cite book |author=Bonafous, M. |year=1833 |title=Traité du maïs, ou, Histoire naturelle et agricole de cette céréale |publisher=Mémoires de la Société royale et centrale d'Agriculture |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M49eAAAAcAAJ}}
- {{cite book |author=Bonafous, M. |year=1822 |title=De la culture des mûriers |publisher=J.M. Barret |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KS4XGxZ2vOIC}}
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Category:19th-century French botanists
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