Félix de Avelar Brotero
Portuguese botanist
Félix de Avelar Brotero was a Portuguese botanist and professor. He fled to France in 1788 to escape persecution by the Portuguese Inquisition, and there published his Compendio de Botanica in order to earn his living. Wikipedia
Born: November 25, 1744, Loures, Portugal
Died: August 4, 1828 (age 83 years), Lisbon, Portugal
Books: Flora Lusitanica, Phytographia Lusitaniae Selectior, seu novarum, rariorum, et aliarum minus cognitarum, Flora Lusitanica: Seu, Plantarum, Quae In Lusitania Vel Sponte Crescunt, Vel Frequentius Coluntur, Ex Florum Praesertim Sexubus Systematice Distributarum, Synopsis /felicis Avellar Broteri, Volume 2, and more
Education: University of Coimbra