Noël Martin Joseph de Necker

Noël Martin Joseph de Necker

Necker, by Anton Karcher, 1789
Born 1730
Lille
Died 1793
Mannheim
Citizenship Belgian
Fields Botany, Medicine
Author abbrev. (botany) Neck.

Noël Martin Joseph Necker (December 25, 1730 - 30 December 1793) was a Belgian physician, and botanist.

Career

Necker was the personal physician to the court of the Electoral Palatinate in Mannheim. His botanical work involved the study of mosses (Bryophyta) on which he wrote several works, and fungi on which he wrote the Traité sur la mycitologie. He is also known for describing the orchid genus Dactylorhiza.

Eponyms

The moss genus Neckera, and its family, the Neckeraceae were named in his honour.

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