Louis-Luc Godey
Louis-Luc Godey was a French mycologist known for his detailed illustrations of many European species of mushrooms.
He was the first to describe Lepiota brebissonii.''''
Career
Godey was originally an art teacher. He later trained as a doctor and took up mycology as a hobby while practicing in Normandy, working with the naturalist Louis Alphonse [de Brébisson]. A collection of his watercolours of fungi are held at the science library of the University of [Caen Normandy]. The botanist Claude Casimir Gillet published Les ''Hyménomycètes de France'' in 1874, the year after Godey's death, using paintings of Godey's that he had gained access to. Mycologist Jean-Philippine Rioult at the University of Caen discovered that in some cases Gillet had copied, traced, and in some cases published Godey's work as his own, only acknowledging Godey as having collected the described new species.Works
- 1835. with Brébisson
Legacy