William Barbey
William Barbey (1842–1914) was a Swiss botanist and politician.
William Barbey was born on 14 July 1842 at Genthod in the canton of Geneva. He studied science at the Academy in Geneva and then engineering at the École Centrale de Paris. From 1862 to 1869, he worked in New York City. He married Caroline, the daughter of the prominent botanist Edmond Boissier. After his marriage, he studied botany and undertook botanical research in Spain, Palestine, Greece and Asia Minor. In 1885, he founded the publication Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier, which in 1910 became the Bulletin de la société botanique de Genève.[1][2]
He built, largely at his own expense, the Yverdon–Saint-Croix railway. However, as a supporter of Sunday observance, he insisted that the trains did not run on that day. He lived in, and was an honorary citizen of, Valeyres-sous-Rances in the canton of Vaud. From 1885 to 1909, he was a Liberal member of the Grand Council of Vaud. He died on 18 November 1914 at Chambésy.[1][2]
The standard author abbreviation Barbey is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]
References
- ^ a b "William Barbey (1842-1914)" (in French). Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire - Lausanne. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
- ^ a b "Barbey, William". Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (in French). 5 May 2004. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Barbey.
External links
- Barbey, William in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- CS1 French-language sources (fr)
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Botanists with author abbreviations
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with Botanist identifiers
- Articles with DTBIO identifiers
- Articles with HDS identifiers
- Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1842 births
- 1914 deaths
- Expatriates in the United States
- Scientists from Geneva
- Politics of the canton of Vaud
- 19th-century Swiss botanists
- Taxon authorities of Hypericum species
- 20th-century Swiss botanists
- All stub articles
- Swiss people stubs