Pius Font i Quer

Pius Font i Quer (Lleida 1888 – Barcelona 1964) was a Catalan botanist, pharmacist and chemist.

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He organized the Institut Botànic de Barcelona and founded Jardí Botànic in this city. In 1911 he joined the Health Military Corporation, in which he was given the military rank of ''tinent coronel farmacèutic''. He was on a botanic expedition in Albarracín (Aragon) with his fellowship when the Francisco Franco's 1936 ''coup d'état'' failed and began the Spanish Civil War. When he want back to Barcelona, he had to go through the war front; for this the reason he was accused of being a member of the military rebellion and lost all his honours, which made continuation of his scientific work difficult.

He was president of the Institució Catalana d'Història Natural (1931–1934), president of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans in 1958 and of the Société Botanique at Geneve, honour vice president of the International Botany Congresses at Paris (1954) and Edinburgh (1964) and doctor ''honoris causa'' at the University of Montpellier.

Pius Font i Quer was the main creator of scientific botanical terminology in Catalan and Spanish. His most well-known works are: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110923082757/http://jolube.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/diccionario-botanica-font-quer-en-pdf/ ''Diccionario de Botánica''] (1953), which is the reference work for botany students in Spain; ''Plantas medicinales'' (1961); and ''Botánica pintoresca'' (1958). His research took place in Spain, but specially in Catalonia, southern Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands, mainly in Ibiza and Formentera. Pius Font i Quer distributed three exsiccata works, i.e., ''Iter Maroccanum: 1927–1930'', ''Flora Iberica selecta'' (1934–1935) and ''Flora Hispánica, Herbario normal'' (1944–1954). Some species and subspecies have been named in honour of Font i Quer and bear the species epithet ''fontqueri''.

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    Plantas medicinales : el Dioscórides renovado / by Font Quer, Pío

    Published 1979
    Book
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    Botánica pintoresca / by Font Quer, Pío

    Published 1974
    Book
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    Plantas medicinales : el Dioscórides renovado / by Font Quer, Pío

    Published 1993
    Book
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    Diccionario de botánica / by Font Quer, Pío

    Published 2001
    Book
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    Diccionario de botánica / by Font Quer, Pío, 1888-1964

    Published 1975
    Book
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    Diccionario de botánica / by Font Quer, Pío, 1888-1964

    Published 1977
    Book
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    Diccionario de botánica / by Font Quer, Pío, 1888-1964

    Published 1953
    Book
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    Botánica aplicada a la farmacia / by Gilg, Ernesto (Ernst Friedrich), 1867-1933

    Published 1926
    Other Authors: “…Font Quer, Pío, 1888-1964…”
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    Tratado de botánica / by Gola, Giuseppe

    Published 1943
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    Tratado de botánica / by Gola, Giuseppe

    Published 1965
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    Tratado de botanica / by Gola, Giuseppe

    Published 1959
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    Tratado de botánica sistemática /

    Published 1944
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    Diccionario de botánica /

    Published 2007
    Other Authors: “…Font Quer, Pío…”
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    Diccionario de botánica.

    Published 2001
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    Diccionario de botánica.

    Published 1965
    Other Authors: “…Font Quer, Pío…”
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    Diccionario de botánica /

    Published 1980
    Other Authors: “…Font Quer, Pío…”
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    Diccionario de botánica /

    Published 1977
    Other Authors: “…Font Quer, Pío…”
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