François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise


François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise was a French physician, botanist and mycologist.
In 1803 he obtained his medical doctorate, afterwards serving as chef de clinique at the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris. He was a member of the Académie nationale de médecine and a correspondent member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon.
He was the taxonomic authority of the lichenized fungi genus Lasallia and of the botanical genera Corvisartia, Lerouxia and Robertia.

Written works

With Adrien Jacques de Lens, he was co-author of a medical dictionary, titled "Dictionnaire universel de matière médicale et de thérapeutique générale", published in seven volumes from 1829 to 1846. Other written efforts by Mérat de Vaumartoise include: