Jean Emmanuel Gilibert and Vilnius university Botanical garden: results of current studies of archive material from Vilnius archives, Göttingen university and National herbarium of Ukraine (KW)

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Archyviniai tyrimai; Botanikos sodas; Georg Forster; J.E. Gilbert'as; Jean Emmanuel Gilibert; Ukrainos nacionalinis herbariumas; Vilniaus universitetas (VU; Vilnius University); Vilniaus botanikos sodas; Archive studies; Botanical garden; Georg Forster; J.E. Gilbert; Jean Emmanuel Gilibert; National Herbarium of Ukraine; Vilnius University Botanical Garden.

ENVilnius University Botanical Garden (VU BG) had been founded during the great educational reform of the Lithuanian-Polish Commonwealth at the end of the 18th century in 1781 by French Professor Jean Emmanuel Gilibert (.Joannes Emmanuel Gilibert, 1741-1814), whose name had been coherent with the first years of the BG history as botany science in Lithuania. In 1775-1783 he was the first scientist (botanist) who studied flora of Lithuania. In 1781 and 1782 Prof. J.E. Gilibert published the first Flora of Lithuania (Gilibert, 1781, 1782). In 1782 J.E. Gilibert and his students produced an educational book - Botanical Exercises (Gilibert, 1782). Those publications were the first serious steps in developing botany science in Lithuania. The BG history is closely connected with pioneers of the natural science (botany, mineralogy, zoology) in Lithuania - J.E. Gilibert, Georg Forster (.Johann Georg Adam Forster, 1754-1794) and Stanisław Bonifacy Jundziłł (Stanisław Bonifacy Jundziłł, 1761-1847), but the first one is today especially honoured as the person who started the botany science in Lithuania. J.E. Gilibert in 1781 headed new Department of Nature History in Vilnius University and for a very short time founded the first botanical garden in Vilnius. The present paper deals with the contribution by J.E. Gilibert into the flora investigations during the period of the Great Duchy of Lithuania; as well as the review of the works done by this VU BG founder, based on the archive and herbaria data investigations. [Extract, p. 85]