Adrien Henri Laurent 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. "

Live and act

Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu was a son of the botanist Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu . The title of his dissertation was De Euphorbiacearum generibus medicisque earundem viribus tentamen , published in Paris in 1824. He published botanical articles on three plant families: in 1825 on the diamond family (Rutaceae), 1830 on the mahogany family (Meliaceae) and in 1843 on the Malpighia family (Malpighiaceae) and was a member of the editorial team of the botanical journal Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe published by Louis van Houtte . He contributed to the entry "Taxonomy" in the Dictionnaire universelle d'histoire naturelle . He also published the Introductio in historiain plantarum , written by his father, in Paris without a date; this work was a fragment of Antoine Laurent de Jussieu's planned second edition of the Genera work , which he could no longer complete.

His father handed over the management of his Jardin des Plantes to him in 1826 . He died in Paris on June 29, 1853, leaving behind two daughters.

Honors

Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1824 . In 1831 he was accepted into the Académie des Sciences . In 1850 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

The asteroid (9470) Jussieu was named in honor of him and Bernard , Joseph and Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu.

Also the plant genus Adriana Gaudich. from the milkweed family (Euphorbiaceae) is named after Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu.

literature

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 .
Jussieu, De . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 15 : Italy - Kyshtym . London 1911, section 5. Adrien Laurent Henri de Jussieu , p. 593 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Commons : Adrien de Jussieu - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu at the IPNI

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Neubert: Van Houtte's price list and his Flore des Serres et des Jardins de L'Europe. In: German magazine for garden and flower science - magazine for garden and flower friends, and gardeners . Volume 6, Hoffmann'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1853, p. 369
^ List of members Leopoldina, Adrien Laurent de Jussieu
^ List of members since 1666: letter J. Académie des sciences, accessed on December 1, 2019 (French).
^ Lutz D. Schmadel: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Volume 1, 5th revised and expanded edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2003, ISBN 3-540-00238-3 , p. 693.
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

personal data
SURNAME	Jussieu, Adrien Henri Laurent de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jussieu, Adrien de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 23, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	June 29, 1853
Place of death	Paris

[1] Wilhelm Neubert: Van Houtte's price list and his Flore des Serres et des Jardins de L'Europe. In: German magazine for garden and flower science - magazine for garden and flower friends, and gardeners . Volume 6, Hoffmann'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1853, p. 369

[2] List of members Leopoldina, Adrien Laurent de Jussieu

[3] List of members since 1666: letter J. Académie des sciences, accessed on December 1, 2019 (French).

[4] Lutz D. Schmadel: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Volume 1, 5th revised and expanded edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2003, ISBN 3-540-00238-3 , p. 693.

[Burkhardt2018-5] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]