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Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois

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French botanist

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According to Wikipedia, Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois was a French botanist and pharmacist. His son François Joseph Lestiboudois and grandson Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois were also botanists. Lestiboudois studied pharmacy at a local hospital in Douai and at the University of Douai. After receiving his license to practice medicine in 1739, he relocated to the city of Lille. During the same year, Lestiboudois was appointed chief pharmacist of the French army. From 1758, he served as an apothecary at the army headquarters of Bas-Rhin, during which time Lestiboudois studied plants that occurred in the vicinity of Cologne and Braunschweig.

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