Jacques Barrelier

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Portrait of Jacques Barrelier on a section of the title page of his work Plantae per Galliam ... (1714, posthumous)

Jacques Barrelier (* 1606 in Paris , † September 17, 1673 in Paris) was a French botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Barrel. "

Life

In 1634 he lived in the novitiate of Faubourg Saint-Germain and on November 29, 1635 made the religious vows as Dominican .

In 1646 the order general Tommaso Turco visited the monastery and made Barrelier his secretary. Barrelier accompanied Turco to Languedoc , Aquitaine and other French provinces. Further trips took him to Valencia in Spain in 1647 and finally to Italy , where he spent twenty-three years in Rome . After Turco's death he was taken over by the new order general Giovanni Battista de Marinis , with whom he worked until his death.

In 1672 he returned to France and died of an asthma attack in Paris in 1673 . He could no longer complete his work Hortus Mundi ou Orbis botanicus , which he had begun in Italy . After his death, a fire destroyed the text he had designed. However, his numerous drawings have been preserved. In 1714 Antoine de Jussieu publishes his estate under the title Plantae per Galliam, Hispaniam et aliam observatae .

Honor taxon

Charles Plumier named the genus Barleria of the Acanthus family (Acanthaceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name.

Fonts

  • Plantae per Galliam, Hispaniam et aliam observatae (Paris, 1714). Edited by Antoine de Jussieu .

proof

literature

  • Jean-Pierre Nicéron : Memories pour servir à l'histoire des hommes illustres dans la république des lettres: avec un catalog raisonné de leurs ouvrages . Briasson, Paris 1729–1745 43 volumes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 31.
  2. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 91.
  3. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 289.

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personal data
SURNAME Barrelier, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobo Barreliero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1606
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1673
Place of death Paris