Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois

Who is Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois?

Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois was a French botanist and pharmacist. His son François Joseph Lestiboudois and grandson Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois were also botanists.

He studied pharmacy at the hospital in Douai and at the University of Douai. After receiving his licence in medicine in 1739, he relocated to Lille. During the same year, he was appointed chief pharmacist of the French army. From 1758, he served as apothecary to the army headquarters of Bas-Rhin, during which time he studied plants found in the vicinity of Cologne and Braunschweig.

In 1770 he was appointed professor of botany by the magistrate of Lille, and from 1796 served as a professor of natural history at the École centrale du département du Nord à Lille.

With Pierre Riquet, he was editor of Pharmacopoeia, jussu Senatus insulensis tertiary edita. In 1774, he issued Carte de botanique, a botanical chart that combined the system of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort with that of Linnaeus.