Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière

Engraving by Jacques Labillardière

Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière (born October 28, 1755 near Alençon , † January 8, 1834 in Paris ) was a French naturalist and traveler . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Labill. "

Live and act

Labillardière studied medicine and botany in Montpellier . He toured England, France, the Alps, southern Europe , Syria and Lebanon and the main islands of the Mediterranean at the expense of the government in 1786 and 1787 . In 1791 he took part in the expedition to the Cape , Australia and Java led by d'Entrecasteaux and did not return to France until 1795. From 1800 he was a member of the "Institut National" in Paris.

He is considered to be the scientist who carried out the first analysis of an essential oil from a modern point of view. Labillardière examined the turpentine oil . He postulated a relationship between the carbon and hydrogen atoms and published his results in this regard, along with those on camphor , under the subtitle Examen chimique de l'essence de thérébenthine. 1818 in the Journal de pharmacie et des sciences accessories .

Taxonomic honor

The plant genus Billardiera Sm. Is named after him; it is a genus of about 25 species native to Australia from the sticky seed family (Pittosporaceae).

Works

His main works are:

Icones plantarum Syriae rariorum (Paris 1791–1812, with 58 coppers);
Novae Hollandiae plantarum specimen (Paris 1804–1806, 2 volumes with 265 coppers); a description of the flora of Australia
Relation du voyage à la recherche de La Pérouse etc. (Paris 1800, 2 volumes with atlas) ( Volume 1: full text ; Volume 2: full text in the Google book search) (German: Journey to the South Sea to visit La Perouse . Campe , Hamburg 1802; Volume 2: Full text in the Google book search).
Sertum Austro-Caledonicum (Paris 1824-25, 2 volumes)

literature

Edward Duyker : Citizen Labillardière. A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755-1834). Miegunyah Press, Melbourne 2003, ISBN 0-522-85010-3 (Paperback edition. Miegunyah Press, Carlton 2004, ISBN 0-522-85160-6 ).

Web links

Literature by and about Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière in the catalog of the German National Library
Author entry and list of the described plant names for Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière at the IPNI
JJH de Labillardiere - The Botanist

Individual evidence

^ List of members since 1666: Letter L. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 7, 2020 (French).
^ E. Gildemeister, Fr. Hoffmann: The ethereal oils . Volume I. Berlin 1956, p. 10
↑ Houton Labadillière: Sur la nature de camphre artificiel et de l'essence de thérébenthine . In: Journal de pharmacie et des sciences accessories. 1818, volume 4, p. 7 ff.
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

personal data
SURNAME	Labillardière, Jacques Julien Houtou de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	La Billardière, Jacques Julien Houtton de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French naturalist and traveler
DATE OF BIRTH	October 28, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH	at Alençon
DATE OF DEATH	January 8, 1834
Place of death	Paris

[1] List of members since 1666: Letter L. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 7, 2020 (French).

[2] E. Gildemeister, Fr. Hoffmann: The ethereal oils . Volume I. Berlin 1956, p. 10

[3] Houton Labadillière: Sur la nature de camphre artificiel et de l'essence de thérébenthine . In: Journal de pharmacie et des sciences accessories. 1818, volume 4, p. 7 ff.

[Burkhardt2018-4] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]