Jean Louis Marie Poiret

Jean Louis Marie Poiret ( born June 11, 1755 in Saint- Quentin, † April 7, 1834 in Paris) was a French botanist and explorer. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Poir. ".

Life and work

1785 and 1786 he was appointed by Louis XVI. sent to Algeria to study the flora. After the French Revolution, he became a professor of natural history at the Ecole Centrale of the department of Aisne.

The plant genus Poiretia Vent. was named after him.

Works

• Jean Louis Marie Poiret: Leçons de flore. Cours complet de botanique. 1819-1820 ( imaging of P. J. F. Turpin ).
• Jean Louis Marie Poiret. Voyage à Barbarie, ..., pendant les années 1785 et 1786 1789.
• Jean Louis Marie Poiret: Histoire Philosophique, littéraire, économique des plantes d'Europe. From 1825 to 1829.
• Jean -Baptiste de Lamarck, Jean Louis Marie Poiret: Encyclopédie méthodique. Botanique. From 1789 to 1817.
• Jean -Baptiste de Lamarck, Jean Louis Marie Poiret: Tableau encyclopédique méthodique et des trois règnes de la nature. Botanique. From 1819 to 1823.
• Flore médicale. Paris: Panckoucke, 1814 Digitized spent Eder University and State Library Dusseldorf.