> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 751](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212793) of TL-2 Vol. VI > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11213-1) LSID 11213-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21611783) QID Q21611783 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Viret, Louis (1875-1928), Swiss botanist (desmidiologist); studied at the Univ. Lausanne 1893-1896 and Genève 1900-1904; Dr. Sci. nat. Genéve 1904; mathematics teacher at Morillon, Genève 1897-1915, founded the "École Viret" at Genéve 1915; from ca. 1916 actively engaged in Geneva politics. **Abbreviated name**: *Viret* \[standard form in IPNI: *Viret*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 439. #### Biofile - Briquet, J. & F. Cavillier, Bull. Soc. bot. Suisse 50a: 471-472. 1940 (biogr. not.; bibl.; epon.; b. 10 Feb 1875, d. Mar 1928). - Chodat, R.H., Bull. Soc. bot. Genève ser. 2. 20: 463-465. 1928 (obit., bibl.). - Prescott, G.W., Bibl. Desmid. univ. 525. 1984. #### Thesis *Contribution à l'étude des liaisons du phloème médullaire, périmédullaire et interligneux avec le liber normal*. Genève 1904. Oct., 100 p. (summary Bull. Herb. Boiss. ser. 2. 4: 1291-1292. 1904). ### Publications ##### n.16.213. Desmidiacées de la Vallée du Trient **Title** *Desmidiacées de la Vallée du Trient* (Valais suisse)... Genève (Imprimerie Froreisen,...) 1909. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1909 (p. 3: 30 Jun 1909), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-18, *pl. 3* with text. *Copies*: B, G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Bull. Soc. bot. Genève ser. 2. 1(6): 251-268. *pl. 3* with text.