Louis Ovide Brunet
LouisOvide Brunet was a FrenchCanadian botanist and Roman Catholic priest, and is considered one of the founding fathers of Canadian botany.
Brunet was born in Quebec City onMarch 1826, the son of JeanOlivier Brunet, a merchant, and Ccile Lagueux. From 1844, he was educated at the Sminaire de Qubec, and was ordained onOctober 1848. He was for the next ten years employed variously as a missionary, a curate, and parish priest. Upon the departure of his former mentor, the Abb Edward John Horan, he was in 1858 appointed teacher of science at his alma mater, which had become Universit Laval in 1852 following a grant of a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria. Following the resignation of mineralogist Thomas Sterry Hunt, Brunet succeeded him as the Chair of Natural History. His expertise as a botanist developed following field work in Ontario and Quebec, as well as two years spent in visiting European herbaria and a course of lectures at the Sorbonne, the Jardin des Plantes, and the Musum national dHistoire naturelle in Paris, France. He corresponded with noted American botanist Asa Gray who encouraged him to undertake a survey
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