François Joseph Lestiboudois [SEP] occupation
François Joseph Lestiboudois
François Joseph Lestiboudois (20 January 1759 – 26 July 1815) was a French botanist. Born at Lille, he was the son of Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois (1715–1804), a professor of botany at the "École centrale du département du Nord à Lille" and was the father of botanist Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois (1797–1876).
Lestiboudois was a professor of botany at Lille and a member of the "Société des sciences, de l'agriculture et des arts de Lille". He is best remembered for
that combined the system of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort with that of Linnaeus.
Publications.
- Pharmacopoea, jussu senatus insulensis tertio edita [a P.-J. Riquet et J.-B. Lestiboudois], 1772.
- Abrégé élémentaire de botanique, à l'usage de l'École de botanique de Lille, 1774.
- Zoologie élémentaire, ou Abrégé de l'histoire naturelle des animaux, à l'usage des jeunes commençans (with François Joseph Lestiboudois), 1802.