Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard
Botanist, Physician
1742 – 1793
Who was Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard?
Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard was a French physician and botanist.
Bulliard studied in Langres, afterwards in Clairvaux and in Paris. There he also practiced as a physician. He tutored the son of General Claude Dupin.
Bulliard’s Dictionnaire Elémentaire de Botanique contributed to the spreading and consolidation of botanical terminology and the Linné system. It was especially important in the area of the mycology, containing descriptions of 393 out of 602 table mushrooms.
Significant species he described include the cep, the common inkcap and the poisonous livid pinkgill
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