Botanist (1762-1828).
Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri (28 November 1761 in Crassier, Vaud – 7 January 1828) was a Swiss-German bryologist. He studied at the University of Lausanne, and at the age of 19 began work as a tutor to the princes of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. In 1804, he was appointed Geheimer Legationsrath to the Privy Council, and later on, he worked as a librarian in the city of Gotha. He was the author of an important work on mosses titled Muscologia recentiorum (1797–1803), of which several supplements were issued in the ensuing years. Later on, he published the two-volume Bryologia universa (1826–27), which