Education
He was schooled at the Montbéliard college, and later studied medicine in Strasbourg.
Botanist mycologist naturalist
He was schooled at the Montbéliard college, and later studied medicine in Strasbourg.
In his youth, he is known to have shown a great interest in mycology and botany in general, but also other subject areas such as ornithology and malacology, the study of mollusks. In 1884, he founded the mycological society known as the Société mycologique de France, of which he became the first president Several years after this, in 1888, Quélet wrote a book, Flore mycologique de la France et des pays limitrophes (Mycological flora of France and neighbouring countries).
Quélet also described several species during his mycological research.
Some are listed below:
Agaricus bitorquis
Amanita aspera
Bondarzewia montana
Clavariadelphus truncatus
Collybia cirrhata
Lepiota aspera
Lepiota castanea
Russula amethystina
Tricholoma pardinum
Xerocomellus armeniacus
Numerous taxa were named after Quélet to honor his contributions to mycology, including the species Amanita queletii, Boletus queletii, Entoloma queletii, Russula queletii, and the genus Queletia. Quélet has been described to be a combination of Petter Adolf Karsten and Paul Kummer, as far as his conducting of his studies and on his mycological researching skills, as well as by the number of new species he was able to find.
Much of Quélet"s work proves useful still today, and many of the names given to some of the most common fungi can be traced to Quélet"s work. During the last years of his life, Quélet broadened his range of study, perhaps due to eccentricity, as is claimed by some, and began to have new interests in some of the things that fascinated him as a youth – ornithology and malacology, among others
At the age of sixty-seven, Lucien Quélet died in 1899.