Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin
Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin (born November 20, 1796 in Pouilly-sur-Saône , † January 15, 1842 in Montpellier ) was a French botanist . He was the editor of Archives de botanique (1833). Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Guill. "
Live and act
Guillemin was an apprentice pharmacist in Dijon and was in Geneva from 1814, where he studied with Jean Pierre Étienne Vaucher (1763–1841) and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778–1841). Later he was curator of the herbarium and librarian of Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (1773–1784) in Paris . In 1827 he was an auxiliary taxidermist at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle and received his doctorate in 1832. In 1834 he succeeded Adolphe Brongniart (1801–1876) as professor of botany at the Natural History Museum.
In 1838 he was on a research trip to Brazil, where he studied tea cultures and collected plants with Ludwig Riedel (1790–1861). With Brongniart and Joseph Decaisne (1807–1882) he investigated the theory of spore formation in fungi by Joseph-Henri Léveillé and introduced the term Basidie into mycology with Léveillé .
From 1830 to 1833 he wrote together with Achille Richard (1794-1852) and Georges Samuel Perrottet (1793-1859) the work Florae Senegambiae tentamen, seu Historia plantarum in diversis Senegambiae regionibus a peregrinatoribus Perrottet et Leprieur detectarum (published by Treuttel et Wurtz, Paris), a flora description of Senegal . In 1835 Guillemin was elected a member of the Leopoldina . He was involved in the Icones selectæ plantarum by Benjamin Delessert and in the Dictionnaire des drogues simples et composées by Alphonse Chevallier (1793–1879).
Honors
The plant genus Guilleminea Kunth from the foxtail family (Amaranthaceae) is named after Guillemin .
Fonts
- Icones lithographicae plantarum Australasiae raiorum . 1827.
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- Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names. Edited by Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guillemin, Jean Baptiste Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1796 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pouilly-sur-Saône |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1842 |
| Place of death | Montpellier |