Jean Baptiste Christophe Fusée Aublet

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Jean Baptiste Christophe Fusée Aublet

Jean Baptiste Christophe Fusée Aublet (born November 4, 1720 in Salon-de-Provence , † May 6, 1778 in Paris ) was a French botanist and pharmacist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Aubl. ".

Aublet joined the French East India Company and was sent to Mauritius in 1752 to build a pharmacy and a botanical garden. He worked there for nine years.

In 1762 he was sent to Cayenne in French Guiana . There he put together a large herbarium that served as the basis for his work Histoire des plantes de la Guiane française , published in 1775, with almost 400 copper plates.

When Aublet died in Paris in 1778 , he bequeathed his herbarium to Jean-Jacques Rousseau , who himself died three months later. In 1953 the herbarium became the property of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle .

Honors

The plant genera Aubletia Le Monn. ex Rozier from the family of the iron herb plants (Verbenaceae) and Aubletella Pierre from the family of sapotaceae (Sapotaceae) have been named after Aublet.

Works

  • Histoire des plantes del la Guiane françoise… 1775.

Web links

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Individual evidence

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