Pierre Antoine Poiteau
Pierre Antoine Poiteau (born March 23, 1766 in Ambleny near Soissons , † February 27, 1854 in Paris ) was a French botanist , pomologist , gardener and draftsman. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Poit. "
Live and act
In 1790 he got a job at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris . He traveled to Haiti from 1796 and to Guiana around 1820 . He was director of the Haiti Botanical Garden from 1796–1802. In 1815 he became head of the royal tree nursery at Versailles. He oversaw the royal plantations in Guiana from 1818. He later became head gardener at Fontainebleau and at the Botanical Garden of the Paris Medical School. He brought many plants back from his travels. He also published a Flora of Haiti and a Flora Parisiensis with Pierre Jean François Turpin . From 1829 to 1851 he headed the magazine Revue horticole .
As a draftsman he provided many excellent illustrations for other people's works.
Honors
The genus Poitea Vent. from the legume family (Fabaceae) is named after him. The pear variety 'Neue Poiteau', raised from seeds by Simon Bouvier in Jodoigne, Belgium, is named after him.
Works
- Flora Parisiensis secundum systema sexuale deposita et plantarum circa Lutetiam sponte nascentium descriptiones, icones ... (together with Pierre Jean François Turpin ), 1808–1813
- Histoire naturelle des orangers (together with Joseph Antoine Risso ), 1818–1820
- Pomologie française , 1846
- Images of fruits
See also
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- Michaud: Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, Tome 33, 1843. pp. 601-602
- J. Decaisne: Notice sur MA Poiteau, in: Revue horticole 1854, pp. 115-120
- J. Decaisne: Obituary Poiteau, in: Gartenflora 3, 1854, p. 307f. (Translation from Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe , 1854)
- Rousselon: Nécrologe, Annales de la Société impériale d'horticulture de Paris 45 (1854), pp. 145-153
- Stéphane Robinet: Eloge d'Antoine Poiteau, Mém. Soc. imp. & centr. d'agric. , 1856, pp. 55-87
- André Leroy: Dictionnaire de Pomologie , vol. 1, Paris 1867, p. 20f.
- Louis Édouard Bureau: Étude biographique sur le botaniste Pierre-Antoine Poiteau d'après les documents manuscrits du Muséum d'histoire naturelle , Nouvelles archives du Muséum d'histoire naturelle . 3. sér, [n °] 9, 1897 (with portrait photo)
- Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Pierre Antoine Poiteau at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names - extended edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
- ↑ New Poiteau - Late Autumn Pear (PDF; 712 kB). Data sheet at Noah's Ark .
- ↑ http://www.trowbridgegallery.com/index.php?SetCode=AQ-7 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Poiteau, Pierre Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French botanist, gardener and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1766 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ambleny at Soissons |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 1854 |
| Place of death | Paris |