Claude Aubriet
Claude Aubriet (* 1665 in Châlons-sur-Marne , Champagne , France, † December 3, 1742 in Paris ) was a French natural painter and botanist .
He worked in the Paris Jardin des Plantes . Claude Aubriet accompanied the French botanist and physician Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and the German doctor Andreas von Gundelsheimer to the Middle East (including Crete , Turkey and Georgia ) in the years 1700 to 1702 in order to record the research results in drawings.
A plant genus in the cruciferous family with a scientific name is named after him: Aubrieta (German Aubrietie , better known as blue pillow ).
literature
- Jean-Paul Barbier, Des Châlonnais célèbres, illustres et mémorables , Ed. Petit Catalonia illustré, Châlons-sur-Marne 2000, ISBN 2950954618
- Roy Porter (ed.), The Cambridge History of Science , Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003, ISBN 0521572436 , p. 565
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| SURNAME | Aubriet, Claude |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French nature painter and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1665 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Châlons-sur-Marne , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 3, 1742 |
| Place of death | Paris |