Nicolas Charles Seringe

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Nicolas Charles Seringe (3 December 1776 – 29 December 1858) was a French physician and botanist born in Longjumeau.

He studied medicine in Paris, and subsequently served as a military surgeon. In this role, he was involved in the German campaign under General Jean Victor Marie Moreau (1763-1813). Afterwards, he left the army and relocated to Bern, where he developed an interest in botany. From 1801 to 1820, he taught classes in Bern. He started to edit exsiccatae and exsiccata-like works distributing dried specimens in sets, among others Saules de la Suisse (1805–1814) and Collection des familles algues, champignons, hypoxylons, lichens (1809).Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2025 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.{{cite web |title=Saules de la Suisse: IndExs ExsiccataID=258826752 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=258826752 |access-date=16 July 2024}}{{cite web |title=Collection des familles algues, champignons, hypoxylons, lichens: IndExs ExsiccataID=28402048 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=28402048 |access-date=16 July 2024}} Some of these series are mainly issued for educational purposes, for example the series Souvenir de la Suisse ou collection de plantes choisies des Alpes (~ 1825).{{cite web |title=Souvenir de la Suisse ou collection de plantes choisies des Alpes: IndExs ExsiccataID=1316750847 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1316750847 |access-date=17 March 2025}} One of his students was Ludwig Schaerer, who later became a pastor and lichenologist.{{cite web |first1=Heinz |last1=Balmer |title=Schärer, Ludwig Emanuel |work=Historische Lexikon der Schweiz HLS (Historical Dictionary of Switzerland) |date=19 April 2010 |url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/032005/2010-04-19/ |publisher= |language=de |access-date=22 April 2022}} Seringe followed with teaching similar duties in Geneva (1820–1830).[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333652#page/529/mode/1up BHL] Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications In 1830 he was named the director of the Jardin de Plantes de Lyon, and from 1834 he taught classes at the University of Lyon.

Seringe belonged to several learned societies, including the Linnean Society of Lyon, of which he was a founding member. Among his written efforts were an 1815 monograph on willows native to Switzerland, a treatise on Swiss cereal grains titled "Monographie des céréales de la Suisse" (1818) and a work on cereal grains of Europe called "Descriptions et figures des céréales européennes" (1841).

The genus Seringia is named in his honor.

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