Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz

Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz (27 January 1731, Metz - 13 January 1807, Paris) was a French physician, lawyer and naturalist.

Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz
Born 27 January 1731
Died 13 January 1807
Fields Botany
Author abbrev. (botany) Buc'hoz

Buc'hoz become a doctor of medicine in Nancy in 1763. He was devoted to botany, but was also interested in the treatment of melancholy and recommended music as therapy. He travelled throughout his native Lorraine and published a 13-volume Histoire naturelle of the province. Teaching botany as well, he was demonstrator at the Collège Royal des Médecins de Nancy. Author of many works of botany he also studied animals (in particular birds) and minerals.

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