Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre

Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre (born October 23, 1833 in Champborne , parish of Saint-André , Réunion , † October 30, 1905 in Paris ) was a French botanist, known for his Asian studies. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Pierre ".

Live and act

His father had a coffee and sugar plantation on Réunion. Louis Pierre was sent to Paris in 1851 to continue his education and studied medicine, from 1855 in Strasbourg. After a typhoon destroyed the plantation, he had to quit his studies for financial reasons.

In 1861 he found an unpaid job for four years with Thomas Anderson , director of the Calcutta Botanical Garden.

He wanted to live in a French colony. On July 18, 1865 he became a member of the Comité agricole et industriel of Cochinchina and took over the direction of the Jardin botanique et zoologique de Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City (as the successor to the first provisional chief Germain). In addition to him, the technical management was carried out by a European head gardener with an assistant. The rest of the staff consisted of Annamites. Pierre classified the 5000 species of the herbarium and organized numerous expeditions into the interior of the country and to neighboring Cambodia and Siam (Thailand). He received a visit from Otto Kuntze .

In 1877 he moved back to Paris, where he worked on his forest flora, which consists of 400 large folio plates. At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1878 he represented the colony of Cochinchina and received a gold medal for a wooden collection. For his work in Saigon he was appointed Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur in 1878 . He wrote monographs on genera, including Garcinia and Clitandra . As a professor at the Collège des Stagiaires , JBL Pierre was nicknamed "Petrus Botanico".

Honors

The plant genera Petrusia Baill are named after him . from the yoke family (Zygophyllaceae), Pierranthus Bonati from the Linderniaceae family , Pierrea Hance from the willow family (Salicaceae), Pierreocarpus Ridl. ex Symington from the wing fruit family (Dipterocarpaceae), Pierreodendron Engl. from the bitter ash family (Simaroubaceae) and Pierrina Engl. from the potted tree family (Lecythidaceae).

As recently as 1953, Rue Pierre in Saigon was named after him.

Publications

Flore forestière de la Cochinchine
Flore général de l'Indo-Chine
Mission to Indo-Chinese Countries to Study Rice Culture , 1869

Individual evidence

↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME	Pierre, Jean Baptiste Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 23, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH	Champborne , parish of Saint-André , Réunion
DATE OF DEATH	October 30, 1905
Place of death	Paris

[Burkhardt_2018-1] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .