Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel was born in Paris on March 27, 1776 and died in Champerret on September 12, 1854. He was a French botanist whose book Traité d’anatomie et de physiologie végétale (Treatise on the Anatomy and Physiology of Plants) earned2 recognition2 in the following volumes:2. Founder of Botany. Cytology and plant physiology. His most significant contribution to plant cytology was his observation (1809) that every plant cell is enclosed in a continuous membrane.
In 1798, Mirbel joined the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. Four years later, the first volume of his Histoire Naturelle des végétaux classés par familles (Natural history of the plant family) was published. In 1803 he became director of the gardens at La Malmaison, where he studied the structure of plant tissues and the development of plant organs. The results were published in Elements de physiologie végétale et de botanique (1815; Elements of Plant Physiology and Botany).