| Pierre-Joseph Garibel | |
| Birth Date: | 1 August 1658 |
| Birth Place: | Manosque, Bouches-du-Rhone, France |
| Death Place: | Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France |
| Education: | University of Aix-en-Provence |
| Occupation: | Physician |
| Parents: | Pierre Garidel Louise de Barthelemy |
| Relatives: | Joseph Lieutaud (nephew) |
Pierre Joseph Garidel (pronounced as /fr/; 1 August 1658 – 6 June 1737) was a French botanist.
Pierre-Joseph Garidel was born on 1 August 1658 in Manosque.[1] His father was Pierre Garidel, a lawyer, and his mother, Louise de Barthelemy.[2] He studied medicine at the University of Aix-en-Provence and the University of Montpellier.[2]
He became a professor of botany at the Aix-en-Provence. Together with Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, he studied plants from Provence.[2] Meanwhile, he called on the French nobility to take up botany as a hobby alongside hunting.[3]
In 1735, he published, Histoire des plantes qui naissent aux environs d'Aix et dans plusieurs autres endroits de la Provence, which describes 1,400 plants.[1] [2] In the preface, he writes about the history of botany in Provence and the medicinal uses of plants.[4]
He died on 6 June 1737 in Aix-en-Provence.[1]
The garidella, a subclass of the thalamiflorae, was named in his honour.[4]