Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent

Jean Baptiste Georges Genevieve Marcellin Bory de Saint- Vincent ( born July 6, 1780 in Agen, † December 22, 1846 in Paris) was a French naturalist, botanist and colonel. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Bory ".

Life and work

Bory was born in Agen. 1787 the family moved with him to Bordeaux.

After the death of his father, Bory de Saint -Vincent de Geraud, he went in 1799 to the military. His mother was Magdeleine Journu. In September 1800, he married Anne -Charlotte de la Delacroix Thébaudais. The marriage produced two daughters Augustine Clotilde Marie Bory de Saint -Vincent (1801-1850) and Hyppolyte Clotilde Claudine Bory de Saint -Vincent (1803-1856) emerged. His wife died in 1823. His second wife was Maria Gros with her he had two more children, Isabelle Atanagilde Bory de Saint -Vincent and Jeanne Geneviève Cassilda Bory de Saint -Vincent.

Bory embarked in October 1800 to participate as a natural historians in the world of Nicolas Baudin Expedition 1800-1804. Bory left the ship in Mauritius in March 1801. He spent two years with the exploration of Réunion and other islands. On October 25, 1801, he witnessed an eruption of Piton de la Fournaise volcano on Reunion Island. On 11 July 1802, he returned to metropolitan France.

Bory occurred after the return back into the army. He was at the Battle of Ulm and the Battle of Austerlitz it. In 1808 he went with the Marshal Nicolas- Jean de Dieu Soult to Spain. After the end of Napoleon's reign, he was forced to five years in exile. It was not until 1820, he was able to return to Paris.

In 1829 he was appointed head of a scientific expedition to the Peloponnese. In 1839 he undertook a research trip to Algeria.

Bory was editor of the "Dictionnaire classique d' histoire naturelle " ( 1822-1831 ).

Its very long name was shortened reproduced in various ways, such as " Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint -Vincent ", " Jean Baptiste Marcellin " or " Jean Baptiste Marie George ."

Taxonomic ceremony

The genus Borya of the plant family Oleaceae ( Oleaceae ) has been named after him.

Works

  • Essai sur les Iles fortunées et l' Atlantide antique, ou l' histoire de précis générale de l' archipel of the Canaries. Paris 1803.
  • Voyage dans les quatre principales îles des mers d' Afrique. Paris 1804 ( 3 vols ).
  • Annales des sciences physiques. 1819-21 (8 vols ).
  • Voyage souterrain, ou description du plateau de Saint- Pierre de Maestricht et de ses vastes cryptes. Paris 1821.
  • Expédition scientifique de Morée. Paris and Strasbourg in 1832.
  • Together with Chaubard: Nouvelle flore du Péloponnèse et des Cyclades. Paris 1838.
  • L' homme, essai sur le genre humain zoologique. 2nd edition. Paris 1827 ( 2 vols ).

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.
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