Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan

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Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan , called Alexis , (born October 29, 1814 in Lyon , † February 7, 1897 ibid) was a French botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Jord. "

Alexis Jordan

Jordan came from a wealthy family, but did not become a businessman like his father, but turned to botany and traveled extensively in France to collect plants from the Pyrenees , the Massif Central to the Alps and in the vicinity of his home Lyon. He had an extensive private botanical garden in Lyon (with Joseph Victor Viviand-Morel (1843-1915) as an assistant), built one of the most extensive private herbariums of his time (which he increased by buying up series of over 200 other botanists) and was gone 1845 member of the local Linnaeus Society, where he had contacts with botanists like Marc Antoine Timeroy (1793-1856), who had a strong influence on him.

He named 1685 species, but not all of them existed. Even during his lifetime he was criticized for his idiosyncratic taxonomy , which considered the finest details and elevated local varieties to species. Its system has been referred to as the Jordanism and Jordanian School and its types as Jordanias or Jordanianas .

His botanical garden was near Villeurbanne and covered 6400 square meters with around 100,000 different plants.

Honors

The plant genus Jordania from the carnation family (Caryophyllaceae) was named in his honor by Pierre Edmond Boissier and Theodor von Heldreich in 1849 .

Fonts

  • Observations sur plusiers Plantes nouvelles, rares ou critiques de la France 1846 (his main work)

literature

  • Jean-Jacques Amigo, “Jordan (Claude, Thomas, Alexis)”, in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. ( ISBN 9782908866506 )
  • M. Coquillat: Le jardin botanique d'Alexis Jordan, Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon, Volume 15, 1946, pp. 63-65
  • M. Coquillat: L'étrange figure d'Alexis Jordan, Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon, Volume 16, 1947, pp. 188-191
  • Jean-Jacques Amigo: Jordan (Claude, Thomas, Alexis) , in: Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, Volume 3, Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, ISBN 9782908866506

Individual evidence

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

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personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Claude Thomas Alexis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alexis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French botanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1897
Place of death Lyon