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Marcelle Barbey-Gampert

Swiss botanist, geologist and climatologist (1887-1949)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ5988147 ↗
Source-derived summary

Marcelle Barbey-Gampert (1895–1987) was a Swiss botanist, geologist, and climatologist noted for phytogeographical studies of the Picos de Europa. The standard author abbreviation Barb.-Gamp. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Works

Barbey-Gampert, M. (1921). "Esquisse de la Flore des Picos de Europa". Bull. Soc. Bot. Genève. Série 2.

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“Marcelle Barbey-Gampert” enters the record as swiss botanist, geologist and climatologist (1887-1949). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Marcelle, Barbey-Gampert and Swiss can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marcelle Barbey-Gampert” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.