Jean Louis Marie Poiret

Jean Louis Marie Poiret (born June 11, 1755 in Saint-Quentin , † April 7, 1834 in Paris ) was a French botanist and explorer. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Poir. "

Live and act

1785 and 1786 he was by Louis XVI. sent to Algeria to study the flora. He mainly collected algae and moss there. After the French Revolution he became a professor of natural history at the École Centrale des Départements Aisne .

Names after Poiret

In 1807, Étienne Pierre Ventenat named the genus Poiretia, which belongs to the butterfly family, after Jean Louis Marie Poiret. Before that, Antonio José Cavanilles had given a genus from the heather family (Ericaceae) the name Poiretia in 1797 . In 1883 Paul Henri Fischer gave the homonymous name Poiretia P. Fischer to a genus of predatory snails of the family Spiraxidae , so that Poiretia is a hemi-homonym - identical names for a plant and an animal genus.

Works

Jean Louis Marie Poiret: Leçons de flore. Cours complet de botanique . C. L. F. Panckoucke, Paris (1819–1820; illustration by P. J. F. Turpin).
- Volume 1 (1819) ( scan in Google book search).
- Volume 2 (1820) ( scan in Google book search).
- Volume 3 (1820) ( scan in Google book search).
Jean Louis Marie Poiret: Voyage à Barbarie, ..., pendant les années 1785 et 1786 . 1789.
Jean Louis Marie Poiret: Histoire philosophique, littéraire, économique des plantes d'Europe . (1825-1829).
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck , Jean Louis Marie Poiret: Encyclopédie méthodique. Botanique . (1789-1817).
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck , Jean Louis Marie Poiret: Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Botanique . (1819-1823).
Flore médicale. Panckoucke, Paris 1814, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-152982 .

literature

Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Jean Louis Marie Poiret at the IPNI

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic 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 .
↑ Alexey Shipunov: The problem of hemihomonyms and the on-line hemihomonyms database (HHDB). (PDF; 124 kB) In: Bionomina. 4, 2011, ISSN 1179-7649 , pp. 65-72.

personal data
SURNAME	Poiret, Jean Louis Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French botanist and explorer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saint-Quentin
DATE OF DEATH	April 7, 1834
Place of death	Paris

[Burkhardt_2018-1] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic 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 .

[2] Alexey Shipunov: The problem of hemihomonyms and the on-line hemihomonyms database (HHDB). (PDF; 124 kB) In: Bionomina. 4, 2011, ISSN 1179-7649 , pp. 65-72.