Adrien-Henri de Jussieu

Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu ( born December 23, 1797 in Paris, † June 29, 1853 ibid ), better known as Adrien de Jussieu was a French botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " A.Juss. ".

Life and work

Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu was a son of the botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu -. The title of his thesis was De Euphorbiacearum generibus medicisque earundem viribus tentamen, published in Paris in 1824, he published botanical contributions to three plant families: . 1825 to the hash family ( Rutaceae ), 1830 to the mahogany family ( Meliaceae ) and in 1843 to the Malpighiengewächsen ( Malpighiaceae ). He wore the entry " taxonomy " in the Dictionnaire universal d' histoire naturelle. He also gave written by his father work Introductio in historiain plantarum out without a year in Paris; this work was a fragment of the proposed by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu second edition of Genera work, which he could not accomplish.

His father gave him in 1826 the leadership of its Jardin des Plantes. Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu died on June 29, 1853 in Paris, leaving behind two daughters.

Swell

  • Robert Zander, Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (eds.): Handbook of Plant Names. 13th edition. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.
  • Entry in the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (English)
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