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Last Name Alemão / Alemao

Given Name Francisco Freire

alt. Names Francisco Freyre Allemão e Cysneiro

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Year born 1797 near Mendanha, west of Rio de Janeiro

Year died 1874

Place of death Rio de Janeiro

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Education studied medicine at the Academia Médico-Cirúrgica do Rio de Janeiro & medical faculty, Univ. of Paris

Country of Activity Brazil

Worked for Diário de viagem de Francisco Freire Alemão (Fortaleza-Crato, 1859) ; Os manuscritos do botânico Freire Alemão (publ. 1964) ; Plantes Novas do Brasil ; Trabalhos da Commissão Scientifica de Exploracão, Seccão Botanica ; Breve noticia sobre a collecção das madeiras do Brasil, 1867 ;

Patronage director of the Brazilian National Museum in Rio de Janeiro ; Museu do Ceará, Secretaria da Cultura do Estado do Ceará

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Techniques botanical drawing & watercolour

Sample(s) https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Francisco_Freire_Alem%C3%A3o_-_Estudos_bot%C3%A2nicos_e_descri%C3%A7%C3%B5es_de_plantas_brasileiras.jpg

Archival sources https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Freire_Alem%C3%A3o

Published sources Flora Brasileiro 2009: 42f, 46, 66, 114f.

other trained as a surgeon; he later became a famous Brazilian botanist who collected in northeast Brazil and along the Rio de Janeiro

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