Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée

Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée was a French botanist who was born in Ardentes, 7 November 1789, and died in Paris on 21 May 1874. He was the author of works on botany and mycology, practical and historical pharmacology, Darwinism, and his experiences in several regions of Europe.

Fée served as a medical orderly during Napoleon's campaign in Spain, then established a pharmacy in Paris. He was schooled in the profession in Strasbourg, receiving his degree in 1815. He met the botanist Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in 1823, and came to be strongly influenced by him. He later became an instructor at teaching hospitals, firstly in Lille in 1825 then Strasbourg in 1832, when he was promoted to M.D. and professor of botany. He was also responsible for the botanical garden until Strasbourg was taken by the Prussians at the end of their war with France, and Fée went on the Paris. In 1874 he was elected as the president of the Société botanique de France. He was a cryptogamist - working on ferns, lichens, and fungi - who published a 7 volume series Essai sur les Cryptogames de écorces exotiques officinales (Essay on the Cryptogams that grow on Exotic Medicinal Barks). Fée was primarily focused on tropical and medicinal plants. He wrote a review of systema naturae in 1830 and a biography of its author, Linnaeus, in 1832. He also discussed early botanists and systematic works.

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