François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise

French botanist (1780-1851).

François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise (5 July 1780 in Paris – 13 March 1851 in Paris) was a French medical doctor, botanist and mycologist. In 1803 he obtained his medical doctorate with a thesis on heavy metal poisoning, afterwards serving as chef de clinique at the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris. He was a member of the Académie nationale de médecine, a correspondent member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon (1824–1851) and a member of the Société nationale et centrale d'agriculture. He was an Officer of the Légion d'honneur (1847) and a Chevalier of the Order du Christ de Portugal (1828). He ex