Esprit requien

Bust of Esprit Requien in Avignon

The grave of Esprit Requien on the Cimetière Saint-Véran in Avignon.

Esprit Requien (born May 6, 1788 in Avignon , † May 30, 1851 in Bonifacio in Corsica ) was a French botanist , paleontologist and malacologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Req. "

Live and act

He was director of the Botanical Garden in Avignon from 1809, also director of the Calvet Museum. From 1840 he was curator at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris.

He mainly dealt with the flora of southern France and Corsica. Over 100 initial descriptions come from his hand.

When the Société Cuvierienne was founded in 1838 , he was one of the 140 founding members of the society.

Honors

A genus of plants Requienia DC. from the legume family (Fabaceae), a mushroom genus Requienella Fabre and an animal genus Requienia (molluscs) have been named after him.

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 .
Pierre Moulet: Esprit Requien (1788-1851). Essai de biography . Fondation Calvet, Avignon 1990, ISBN 2-9503664-0-6 , 134 pp.

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Esprit Requien at the IPNI
Short biography at the Museum of Avignon (French)

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 .
^ Société Cuvierienne: List of the Premiers Fondateurs de La Société Cuvierienne, Association universelle pour l'avancement de la Zoologie, de L'Anatomie comparée et de la Palaeontologie . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 1 , 1838, p. 191 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Requien, esprit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 6, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH	Avignon
DATE OF DEATH	May 30, 1851
Place of death	Bonifacio in Corsica

[Burkhardt_2018-1] 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 .

[sc191-2] Société Cuvierienne: List of the Premiers Fondateurs de La Société Cuvierienne, Association universelle pour l'avancement de la Zoologie, de L'Anatomie comparée et de la Palaeontologie . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 1 , 1838, p. 191 ( digitized version ).