Joseph Decaisne

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Joseph Decaisne

Joseph Decaisne (born March 7, 1807 in Brussels , † February 8, 1882 in Paris ) was a French botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Decne. "

Life

In 1824, Decaisne began to work as a gardener at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. As assistant to Adrien-Henri de Jussieu , he processed herbarium specimens from explorers and, on this basis, described numerous new species. In 1835 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina , in 1846 in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1847 in the Académie des Sciences and in 1854 in the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Joseph Decaisne was a founding member in 1854 and President of the Société botanique de France in 1855, 1860, 1867 and 1873 . As the successor to Jules Émile Planchon , he took over the editing of the magazine Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe published by Louis van Houtte in 1854 .

Honors

The genus Decaisnea Hook.f. & Thomson from the finger fruit family (Lardizabalaceae) and the species Caralluma decaisneana (Lem.) NEBr. named from the subfamily Asclepioideae.

Works

  • Le Jardin fruitier du Muséum, ou Iconographie de toutes les espèces et variétés d'arbres fruitiers cultivés dans cet établissement avec leur description, leur histoire, leur synonymie (9 volumes, 1858–1875) 1 2 5 6 7 8 9
  • Flore élémentaire des jardins et des champs, accompagnée de clefs analytiques et d'un vocabulaire des termes techniques. Emmanuel Le Maout & J. Decaisne (2 volumes, 1855)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Joseph Decaisne at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 28, 2016.
  2. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter D. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 4, 2019 (French).
  3. ↑ Member entry of Joseph Deaisne at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 24, 2017.
  4. ↑ A trip to Belgium and the Netherlands in the first spring of 1862 - 6. Louis van Houtte's commercial gardening and gardening school in Ghent. In: Weekly of the Association for the Promotion of Horticulture in the Royal Prussian States for Horticulture and Herbology. Volume 5, published by Karl Wiegandt, Berlin 1862, pp. 226-230
  5. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Decaisne, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French botanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1882
Place of death Paris