Jacques-Denis Choisy

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Jacques-Denis Choisy , also Jacques Denys Choisy , (born April 5, 1799 in Jussy , † November 26, 1859 in Geneva ) was a Swiss theologian, philosopher and botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Choisy ".

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Choisy, whose father Georges Louis Choisy (1758–1843) was pastor in Jussy, Céligny and Geneva, studied theology, law , humanities and natural sciences at the academy in Geneva, where he studied botany with Augustin Pyramus de Candolle , and became Ordained as a Protestant pastor in 1821. From 1822 he went to Paris for further training and became a member of the Société d'histoire naturelle. He worked in the collection of Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert and in that of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and had connections in Paris with the botanists Adolphe Brongniart , Achille Richard , Karl Sigismund Kunth , the curator of the Delessert herbarium Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin and Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu , but also listened to mathematics and physics ( Jean-Baptiste Biot ). He then returned to Geneva, where the chair of the philosopher Pierre Prévost had become vacant. From 1824 to 1847 he held the chair for rational philosophy at the academy in Geneva. From 1844 to 1846 he was rector of the academy. He was on the Administrative Commission of the Geneva Botanical Gardens. When the radicals came to power in Geneva in 1846 (see History of the Canton of Geneva ), he lost his post like the other professors (for which they were compensated by a relatively small pension). In 1854 he anonymously published a pamphlet against the disempowerment of the Protestant Church in Geneva through the reforms of the radicals.

He was in London in 1830 and 1854 (in 1830 he married the daughter of a London-based citizen of Geneva named Siordet, with whom he had at least five children). On the second visit he met William Jackson Hooker . Soon after, his health deteriorated.

He was a collaborator of his teacher Augustin Pyramus de Candolle on his work Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis .

Choisy was active in the Compagnie des Pasteurs (Society of Pastors) of Geneva and was editor of the magazine Le Protestant in Geneva as a theologian .

Honors

The plant genus of orange flowers ( Choisya Kunth ) is named in his honor.

Fonts

  • Des doctrines exclusives en philosophie rationelle, Geneva 1828
  • Considérations sur le infériorité légale de l´eglise protestante dans le Canton de Genève et le moyens d´y remédier, Geneva 1845 (anonymous)
  • Étrennes religieuses, 1857 (among other things on modern witchcraft )
  • Prodromus d'une monographie de la famille des hypéricinées, Geneva 1821 (several editions until 1983)
  • Mémoire sur la famille des Sélaginées, Geneva 1823
  • Descriptions des Hydroléacées, Geneva 1833
  • Convolvulaceae orientales, Geneva 1834
  • Mémoire sur les familles des Ternstroemiacées et Camelliacées, Geneva 1855

literature

  • Alphonse de Candolle: Notice biographique sur Jacques-Denis Choisy, Geneva 1860 Online

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 Choisy, Jacques-Denis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Choisy, Jacques Denys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theologian, philosopher and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Jussy GE
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1859
Place of death Geneva