Pierre Jean François Turpin

Pierre Jean François Turpin ( born March 11, 1775 in Vire, † May 1, 1840 in Paris) was a French botanist and painter. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Turpin ".

Life and work

Turpin is one of the most important plants painters of his time. He was stationed in Haiti in 1791 as a French soldier and met the botanist Pierre Antoine Poiteau, with whom he worked intensively in the following years and its sitings he portrayed. However, Turpin also collaborated with other naturalists, as with Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland.

Ehrentaxon

He was the genus Turpinia Vent honor. the plant family of Pimpernussgewächse ( Staphyleaceae ) named.

Works

• Icones plantarum selectae (1773-1847, edited by Benjamin Delessert )
• Traité des arbres fruitiers (1700-1782, Pierre Antoine Poiteau, new edition of the works of Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau )
• Plantes équinoxiales (1808, text by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland, the illustrations along with Pierre Antoine Poiteau )
• Leçons de flore Cours complet de botanique (1819-1820, text by Jean Louis Marie Poiret )