Jacques Julien Houtou de 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]
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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 |